The PhilPapers survey results came out last week, and there’s already been a fair amount of discussion of them on the web. They seem to raise two big issues in particular: the obvious is something unsurprising, but that may never have been documented before: philosophers specializing in philosophy of religion, as a class, differ in [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Department of things you already knew
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 20, 2009
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Robin Hanson reports on the results of a study supposedly showing that “It seems men are eager to visibly help heroically and financially, and to spend on visible status symbols, mainly to seek promiscuous short-term sex!” When I first saw that a few days ago, I thought, “Oh, that’s interesting, I’ll write something about that.” [...]
Vjack on Friendly Atheism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 19, 2009
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Hemant does plenty of good stuff, but his promotion of himself as a “friendly atheist”–implicitly denigrating an awful lot of other people as “angry atheists”–has always bugged me. Recently, Hemant did another post on the subject, and Vjack pointed out the problems with the argument: As someone who has frequently been accused of aggressive atheism, [...]
The Craig-Ayala Debate, and Dawkins and PZ Myers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 19, 2009
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A couple days after I posted saying Dawkins should challenge Craig to a debate on evolution, I found out that last month, Craig did his first debate against evolution against Francisco Ayala, contra my expectations that Craig would never agree to do such a debate. I listened to the debate, and basically agreed with the [...]
Campaign against UK libel law
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 13, 2009
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Good news: A campaign has been launched to repeal the UK libel law. If you don’t understand why this is good news, just click and you’ll get an explanation.