When I first got Plantinga’s latest book, I was a little unsure of what to say about the version of evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) he presents there. I’ve long been irked by Plantinga’s apparent lack of curiosity about what scientists who work on the evolution of the mind would say about his argument. On [...]
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DJ Grothe is right, part 3: “Yes, but sometimes it’s appropriate to say, ‘yes but’”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2012
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Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Par 2, screen cap dump One thing Greta Christina did in criticizing DJ Grothe was refer back to a previous post she had written, Why “Yes, But” Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny. When I saw this post, I thought it was pretty obviously problematic, for reasons that don’t [...]
DJ Grothe is right, part 2: screen cap dump
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2012
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Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Part of the problem with the DJ/Greta dustup is that it was spawned by something that happened on Greta’s Facebook page. Facebook does not make it easy to permalink to old threads, so basically nobody has the context for this unless you’re both (1) friends with Greta on Facebook [...]
Yay! A reply to my review. Except… *sigh*
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 10, 2012
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I’ve been blogging for six and a half years. My possibly-overly-nostalgic memories of my early years blogging are that atheist and Christian bloggers interacted a lot more back then. The blogosphere seems to have moved away from that, and unfortunately it’s a self-reinforcing trend: it’s hard to write blog posts responding to Christian bloggers, if [...]
DJ Grothe is right, part 1: what DJ said
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 9, 2012
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I’ve got some stuff to get off my chest. It’s related to things I’ve written here and here, but includes a lot of other stuff as well. It’s stuff I’ve avoided writing about because I feel like I have better things to do, but now it’s escalated to Greta Christina accusing DJ Grothe of sexism [...]