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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Deductive arguments

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  Actually deductive arguments does not need to be based on facts. It just has to he structured in such a way that if the premises are true,...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Free speech is free speech-like it or not

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If you think it’s dangerous for Florida’s legislators to have the power to police speech in public school classrooms, then you should find i...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Hitler's Crib

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  There are cases when what maximizes utility contradicts a principle. What if you are in a position to kill someone you know will do great ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Utilitarianism and tax policy

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  If you raise taxes on the wealthy, you hurt some of those people, though they can afford to lose their thirteenth yacht. But presumably th...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Classroom advocacy

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  I have often noted the disparity between the way in which religious advocacy in the classroom is treated and the way anti-religious advoca...
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Monday, April 07, 2025

A libertarian defense of abortion and infanticide

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  Here.  Yep, infanticide has its defenders.
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AI on whether abortion is cheaper

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Of course you also have the argument that capital punishment is cheaper.   While the costs of abortion and childbirth vary, some argue that ...
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Thursday, April 03, 2025

If materialism true, how is belief based on evidence possible?

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  The title of one of Richard Dawkins’s books is The Blind Watchmaker , but its subtitle is How the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a World wi...
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Craig on the argument from intentionality

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  Here. 
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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