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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Knowing What We Know Now

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The "Knowing what we know now" game seems to be enjoying a spurt of popularity among the media, mostly because it's being used...
Monday, May 18, 2015

White Flight

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It's not unusual to hear commentators blame the problems of our urban areas, at least in part, on "white flight." Whites, it...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Water's Weirdness

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There's an interesting article by Alok Jha in The Guardian on the very strange and unique properties of a substance we (unless we'r...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The Enemies of Free Speech

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Kirsten Powers is a liberal Democrat (in the classical sense) who appears sometimes as a political analyst on FOX News. Unlike many of her f...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Harder Than It Has to Be

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Once again a Republican presidential candidate is struggling to answer a question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Earlier, you...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Rapid Advancement Opportunities

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The war against ISIS - a war of attrition about which we don't hear much from our media, fixated as they are on whether Tom Brady knew w...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Racism in America

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Racism is alive and well, even among university faculty where you'd think the bigots would at least be circumspect. Circumspection, thou...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Rethink Your Bias

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I had to chuckle at the recent ads carried by AOL adjuring us to "rethink our biases." One ad features this picture: The reas...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Distinctions Without Differences

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A friend sent along a link to a piece at Salon about the Pamela Geller cartoon event in Garland, Texas that resulted in two would-be jihadi...
Friday, May 8, 2015

The Garland Incident

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The Garland, Texas episode has created some strange alignments. To recap, a woman named Pamela Geller who writes at a blog called Atlas Shru...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Liberal Fascism

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Having recently read an article in which a sociologist makes the claim that reading books to your children gives your children an unfair ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Flat Tax

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Bill Whittle, the "virtual president," observed the occasion of a recent tax filing deadline to make a succinct case for a flat ta...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Three Warblers

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Long time readers of Viewpoint will recall that from time to time I've posted photos of some of the more beautiful species of birds that...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Theism, Atheism and Proper Basicality

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Philosophers consider some beliefs justified even though the believer can mount no argument for them. They call these beliefs properly basic...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Popomo

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Students have sometimes asked me what I thought would come after the postmodern (po-mo) infatuation which some say we're currently exper...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Scientists Debate Materialism

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TheBestSchools.Org is hosting an interesting dialogue between two well-known scientists, Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. The dialogue ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Peacock Spider

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The video below shows the courtship dance (set to music) of an Australian species of spider, which for reasons which will become obvious, is...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Euthyphro's Dilemma (Pt. III)

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Yesterday we took a look at the challenge posed by the Euthyphro Dilemma to those who believe that God's existence is a necessary condit...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Euthyphro's Dilemma (Pt. II)

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Many philosophy students find themselves confronted with the Euthyphro dilemma, a problem often posed to convince them that God's existe...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Euthyphro's Dilemma (Pt. I)

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One family of arguments among the dozen or so which, taken together, make a strong case for the claim that theism is a better explanation f...