Jerry Coyne is still annoyed at Massimo Pigliucci: Massimo, you’re a smart guy, and could be a real asset to atheism. But don’t you see how you look to many of us with your arrogance and your constant lectures on how we’re not as smart, insightful, or philosophically sophisticated as you? Many of your posts [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Dear Massimo: please stop assuming non-philosophers are inferior
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 21, 2011
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Review of Gary Gutting’s What Philosophers Know, part 3
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 17, 2011
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This last part of the review (see parts one and two) is mostly for the sake of completeness. Thus, it will be shorter, but I’ll be talking about something a lot of people care about: the status of our scientific beliefs. At the end of his chapter on Plantinga, Gutting makes a claim that he [...]
Review of Gary Gutting’s What Philosophers Know, part 2
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2011
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Now the part of my review that will talk about things non-philosophers care most about: philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga, and the problem of evil. This is also the part I find most difficult to write, because I know Gutting personally and don’t want to be too harsh criticizing him. I’ll get straight to the [...]
What’s Wrong with Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape (review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2011
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I’m getting caught up on reading over winter break, and among other things just finished Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape. Initially, I was going to say that while I think there are problems with Harris’ view, I didn’t think any of the commentary I’d read had quite gotten right what those problems are. However, via [...]
The relevance of the Santa Claus analogy
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 5, 2011
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Luke Muehlhauser posted a video of a debate between an 8 year old and a 9 year old on the existence of Santa Claus. The first comment was by one pissed-off David Rodgers, which I decided was ripe for parody: David, your dismissal of belief in Santa Claus does not indicate you are actually practicing [...]