I just got into a rather frustrating discussion with Andrew of Evaluating Christianity over some of his criticisms of the argument from morality. I’m not going to do a complete re-hash of the debate here, rather, I want to see if I can clear up one big source of misunderstanding that I see repeatedly in [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Housekeeping: carnivals, obscenity, and a Loftus-Craig debate
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 27, 2009
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Some miscellaneous things I’ve been needing to do for awhile…
Why semen tastes bad, men are slime, and Jerry Coyne is annoying
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 24, 2009
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This week, I stumbled upon what may be the most amusing–if unfortunate–attacks on evolutionary psychology I’ve read to date. Quick background: evolutionary psychology is in this weird situation where almost everyone who’s studied the issue in a serious way realizes the main ideas are right, but since some people are made uncomfortable by it lots [...]
Pinker is wrong, Orwell was right, Pinker is right
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 21, 2009
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Does language influence how we think? This looks like a psychological question, in many ways it hasn’t left the domain of philosophy: the psychological research is unclear, leaving us with largely logic and common sense; it involves issues of what consciousness is, “what is it like to be a thinker?”; and it raises core questions [...]