Who Gets to Use Lewis’s Excuse?
Now that college is over, and I’m wrapping up my guest stint at Daylight Atheism, I finally have time to get back to reading and blogging about books (or more precisely, books about atheism and...
View ArticleHuman Approximations of Morality
Adam Lee, author of Daylight Atheism, has just gotten into an argument with Peter Hitchens over Divine Command Theory. Peter Hitchens contends: “For a moral code to be effective, it must be attributed...
View Article[Feser] Stuck in the Map-Territory Gap
As promised yesterday, this is the kickoff of my analysis of and questions about Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. Yesterday, in the index post, I pasted in...
View ArticleIt’s Hard Out Here for a Platonist
Alex Knapp took issue with my quasi-Platonism (and possible math idolatry) over at his tech blog for Forbes. Here’s the crux of his argument: The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable...
View ArticleThe Black Box Brain Problem
If I found a black box with a number keypad and a printer tape, I could make tables of all the inputs I tested and the outputs. I put in a 1 and get a 3. A 7 gets me 127. Non-integers return...
View ArticleWe Go Together / Like Essence and Telos / Doo-bop a doo-bee doo
Here’s Adam of Daylight Atheism’s reply to the questions I asked him yesterday about the difference between moral and mathematical laws, and whether either is human-independent. (He also pointed out...
View ArticleIs it Maps All the Way Down?
Yesterday, I went to the Dominican House of Studies for a symposium on Creation and Modern Science, and one of the speakers was Edward Feser, author of The Last Superstition (the book that got me...
View ArticleWhen Do You Reject Your Intuitions?
A while ago, a commenter emailed me to ask if I could recommend any books to read on human cognitive bias, and now that I’ve finished Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, I can, with great...
View ArticleHere there be Dragons [Reply to JT]
So, JT asked: 3. You undoubtedly have a logical proof of some sort for a moral lawgiver. What is it? No, I definitely don’t have a modus tollens, modus ponens style justification for my new position....
View ArticleIs Sufficiently Compressed Thinking Indistinguishable from Magical Thinking?
Andrew Brown is in The Guardian claiming any sufficiently interesting theory of the world is indistinguishable from religion. There’s a lot to debate there, but do you mind if I put the broader issue...
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