I think this is pretty cool, though really shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s seen the more fined-grained voting maps.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dawkins should challenge Craig to a debate on evolution
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 11, 2009
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John Loftus has been covering William Lane Craig’s attempts to get Dawkins to debate him. I basically agree with the first comment left on John’s post: Actually, I really doubt that Dawkins knows who Craig is. Outside of hardcore apologist circles and skeptics who find him annoying enough to be worth responding to, nobody really [...]
Random brilliant posts
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 10, 2009
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Last weekend, for some reason, I read an unusually large number of blog posts that struck me as brilliant. Here’s a wrap-up: Comedy is Cynical by Robin Hanson: Plays off a brilliant-in-its-own-right Onion article about the naked status-seeking of American consumerism. Hanson comments: Comedy is full of such cynical observations like the above, far more [...]
MacIntyre on the is-ought problem
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 9, 2009
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I think most philosophers nowadays take it for granted that there is a distinction between judgments about how things are and what we ought to do, and that claims of one type cannot be logically derived from nothing but statements of the other type–you’re going to need a premise in there of the form “if [...]
In defense of indoctrinating children
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 8, 2009
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Robin Hanson announces that he thinks schools exist in large part for the sake of propaganda. I’m not shocked. Actually, I think propagandistic schooling is vital to the health of liberal democracy. Consider: think of every contact you’ve had with American political discourse, as well as every survey you’ve read that investigated American’s knowledge and [...]