Kinds of ethical questions

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 [...]

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Great books that are out there, great books that aren’t out there

The other week, I got a message asking for book recommendations on philosophy and religion? As with my debate advice thread, I’m here posting an expanded version of my response. Included will be thoughts on what’s missing in current pop-academic literature (with hints at my plans for future books). Feel free to use the comments [...]

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Housekeeping: carnivals, obscenity, and a Loftus-Craig debate

Some miscellaneous things I’ve been needing to do for awhile…

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Why semen tastes bad, men are slime, and Jerry Coyne is annoying

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 [...]

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Pinker is wrong, Orwell was right, Pinker is right

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 [...]

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