Luke on reformed epistemology and moral realism
January 26, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, ethics, philosophy, religion
In his blogging, Luke of Common Sense Atheism has made some fairly harsh, and largely unexplained, swipes at reformed epistemology (Alvin Plantinga’s project of trying to show we can accept Christian doctrine without any argument or evidence for doing so), saying things like “reformed epistemology is neither” and that it is a “Candidate for ‘Dumbest [...]
Continue Reading »What exactly is an angel?
January 4, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, philosophy, religion, science
Stephen Law reports on a radio encounter between a skeptic and a vocal advocate in angels, in which the skeptic proposed that we would have objective evidence of angels if we found under controlled conditions that those who claimed to communicate with angels had gotten information they could not have gotten in any other way. [...]
Continue Reading »The PhilPapers Survey: Believers, Peers, and Experts
December 20, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
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 [...]
Continue Reading »Random brilliant posts
December 10, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under biology, epistemology, philosophy, religion, science, social and literary criticism, stupidity
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 than most [...]
Some disappointing bigotry from Adam Lee
November 19, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, philosophy, politics, religion, social and literary criticism
Adam Lee has a post on polygamy and polyamory that I largely agree with, saying that adults should be allowed to do as they please with regards to their personal relationships, but marriage as a legal institution should be a one-legally-recognized-partner-per-person deal, largely due to practical difficulties with institutionally-supported polygamy. But in the middle of [...]
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