So for months now I’ve been talking about working on this book, and I’m finally at the point where I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made. I’ve got a draft of one chapter and partial drafts of seven other chapters. It’s not a full draft of the book, but I’ve written enough of it [...]
Category Archives: ethics
Are there any interesting defenses of the moral side of religion?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 2, 2012
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What is objective morality anyway?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 23, 2011
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I’m not a huge Michael Ruse fan. Scratch that, I’m not any kind of Michael Ruse fan. However, after seeing a friend criticize this for supposedly being consistent about moral realism/anti-realism, I’m starting to wonder if Ruse has a point about morality. This is because there are several different questions we could be talking about [...]
What to do about odious, but popular, religious beliefs?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 4, 2011
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Evangelical blogger Randal Rauser has written not one, not two, but three blog posts calling Richard Dawkins cowardly and immoral for refusing to debate William Lane Craig. Rauser’s “If Dawkins believes what he says about Craig…” premise, almost like he’s trying to give atheists advice, reminds me of Greta Christina’s “Letter to Concerned Believers,” but [...]
More on Luke’s endorsement of William Lane Craig
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 25, 2011
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I’ve said that I don’t think William Lane Craig deserves the praise that Luke Muehlhauser has heaped on him. But in my previous post on the subject, I said have less than I could have about why I’m not impressed with Craig. In particular, I didn’t respond to the many specific points Luke has made [...]
The Harris-Craig debate: addenda
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 14, 2011
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Two things: Harris’ critique of divine command theory I had to roll my eyes at part 2 of Luke’s review of the debate, where Luke claims Harris’ entire first rebuttal was “fail” because it was all irrelevant. But Luke simply ignores one of the most important points of the entire speech: that Craig’s moral theory [...]