Note: what you see below was originally going to be just the first half of a very long blog post. However, my computer is acting up, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to finish writing it… but possibly, my original plan was something too big for one post, and needed to be broken [...]
Category Archives: philosophy
Atheism is just thinking there aren’t any gods
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 24, 2011
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Andyman writes: Also, if there is one criticism of atheism I see too often its that naturalism is, apparently incoherent. It would be great if you could explore this a little bit more, as I’ve seen far more theists attack naturalism than actually defend their own arguments. I’m probably only going to do one post [...]
Using vs. mentioning arguments
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 17, 2011
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Note: the following bit is something I wrote specifically for a new book I’m working on, tentatively titled: Angry Atheists?: Why Anti-Atheist Backlash is Silly. At the end, I’ll throw in a bit of explanation of where the book will take the discussion from there, and I’d very much like feed back on it, whether [...]
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 importance of quantifiers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 21, 2011
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I’ve been beating up on philosophy a lot here over the past few months, but if there’s one thing studying philosophy has taught me, it’s the importance of quantifiers. Consider an example sentence from Lester Hunt (a former philosophy professor of mine, incidentally): “Why do environmentalists seem unfazed by their mistaken, even grossly and absurdly [...]