or: on the methods of philosophy Earlier this month, Richard Chappell put up a thread titled “Fundamental Disagreements,” which asked for readers to say if they found any of his assumptions fundamentally misguided. I decided I had more than could be hashed out in the comments, so I told myself I’d write a full post [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Sunday on a Monday: the hydrogen molecule
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 21, 2008
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>>>This is a Science Sunday post, delayed for a day due to unforseen circumstances. I found myself a little short of time Sunday, and decided to delay for a day rather than hastily whipping up something crappy.<<< Probably, at some point in your life you’ve seen someone take a long stick with a flame on [...]
Addendum to a review
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 18, 2008
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When I reviewed /Stuff White People Like/, I meant to include mention of this post by Greta Christina. The thumbnail: reflexively opposing authority–say, scientific authority–makes you just as much a slave to the dictates of that authority as blindly following it, although “you’re doing it in a Bizarro World/ Opposite Day kind of way.” There [...]
Reposted Uncredibility: Christian skeptic?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 18, 2008
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>>>Like my last Unposted Credibility, this post stems from going to a Campus Crusade production.<<< Thursday, I went to see a magician by the name of Andre Kole perform on campus. What drew me in was the e-mail from Campus Crusade I got promoting the event: Prepare to be amazed by Andre Kole! World renowned [...]
More cases for consequentialism: abortion and euthanasia
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 16, 2008
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In the last lecture, I introduced consequentialism in terms of cases where you have to decide who lives and who dies, and the issue of what sorts of decisions in those cases are morally permissible. Today, though, we’re going to talk about cases where it’s mainly one person’s life at stake. The first of these [...]