It’s easy to be infuiated by stories of cops treating people differently based on their clothes. It smack of class bias. But this is really just one example of a general feature of human decision making: we make decisions based on usually-reliable cues that are open to manipulaton. The classic example is price: we tend [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Stupidity or advertising?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 30, 2009
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The following comment just came up in the moderation queue for my review of : I’m sure this horrible and troubling film will do well enough with the frat boy types it has been engineered to appeal to, and date-rape culture will continue to thrive on college campuses. My first response was to approve the [...]
“God,” real meanings, and useful meanings
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 29, 2009
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Yesterday, Jerry Coyne spotted yet another exampleof something that I see quite a bit: accusations that prominent atheists believe that literalism is the true form of religion. Though talk of literalism is misleading, there’s also an issue of whether leading atheists have made any claims at all about the “real” form of religion. Jerry Coyne [...]
“People can no longer be easily controlled”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 29, 2009
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This is a problem for religion. according to a Catholic Archbishop. HT: Styvyn Larson on Facebook.
Carnivals
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 28, 2009
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The 97th Philosopher’s Carnival and the 43rd Humanist Symposium are up.