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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

VEST

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Neuroscientist David Eagleman has been working with a team of engineers to design a device that will convert the frequencies of sound waves ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

The Left's State of Disrepair

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Matt Purple at The American Spectator dissects the political left's unenviable current condition: The Obama era should have been a high...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Ethical Duties

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The journal Science (subscription required) ran a review a year or so ago by Rudolph Griss of a book by atheistic biologist E.O. Wilson tit...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Some Questions about Rights

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1) If it's okay for Angie's List and other businesses to boycott Indiana because they believe Indiana's Religious Freedom Restor...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

The Iran Deal

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The Obama administration, in concert with several European allies and Russia, has been negotiating with Iran over the future of their nuclea...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth Is

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In the wake of the Indiana passage of their Religious Freedom Restoration Act a lot of Very Important People have rushed to deplore Indiana...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

It's a Draw

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William Lycan is a materialist philosopher, i.e. he rejects the dualist view that there are two fundamental essences to reality - matter and...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Ruse Seems Confused

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Florida State philosopher of biology Michael Ruse has a piece at the New York Times' Opinionator in which he explores some reasons why ...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Easter and Miracles

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The Christian world is preparing to celebrate what much of the rest of the Western world finds literally incredible, the revivification of a...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Hate and Degradation

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Some of our friends on the left recently showed themselves to be bullies and haters by going on twitter to utter threats and imprecations ag...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

On Good Friday

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Some time ago we did a post based on a remark made by a woman named Tanya at another blog. I thought that as we approach Good Friday it migh...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Moral Relativism

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In 2011 (12/5) I ran the following post under the title of The Fatuousness of Relativism . Having just talked about that topic recently in s...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

RFRA

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There's been a lot of hand-wringing this week over the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) which protects individuals from ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

A Problem With Teaching Ethics

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Ray Penning at Cardus Blog asks the question, "Can ethics be taught?" The answer, of course, is yes and no. Ethics, as the study ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Interaction Problem

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I've run a few posts on the topic of mind and matter this past week, largely because we've been discussing it in my classes, and bec...
Friday, March 27, 2015

The Evolution of Consciousness

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Sal Cordova at Uncommon Descent talks about how reflecting on the phenomenon of human consciousness as a high school student led him to dou...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Mind and Materialism

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Raymond Tallis at The New Atlantis discusses the devastating assault on philosophical materialism that began in the 1970s when American phi...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Beetle Body

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Are we identical with our bodies or are we beings which have bodies? Philosopher Alvin Plantinga makes an argument, borrowing from Franz Ka...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Collapsing Talks?

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President Obama is exceedingly wroth with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his public criticism of Mr. Obama's plans for a ...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Bad Science Guy

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Bill Nye won the hearts of a lot of kids who watched his videos in their science classes. He was goofy yet funny, corny but personable, and ...