dangerous idea

C. S. Lewis’s work is certainly varied, from children’s fantasy fiction, to science fiction, to scholarly writings in English literature, to...

A redated post. C. S. Lewis lived before computers became the major force that they are now. I think he would not be impressed by the argu...

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People often maintain that atheists are necessarily going to be humanists. Atheist Luke Muehlhauser disagrees, but his complaint seems to b...

Hat tip: Darek Barefoot.

I t is not enough that one mental event cause another mental event in virtue of its propositional content. Someone who engages in rationa...

Well, atheists don't say that our eternal destiny hangs on our decision, but I do hear atheists say that everything depends on our aban...

• To accuse people of irrationality is the charge them with a moral as well as an intellectual failure. This is, of course, what makes the ...

Parsons' comments are   here .  I think you misunderstood my point. People can be tempted to kill for what they think i...

A redated post What if you accept irreducibility arguments that defend the claim that mental states are ineliminable and irreducible to...

Inspiring to, I think, all of us, Catholic or Protestant. Here.   

“In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university, there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate to...

This seem to me to be the model for discussion that Christians and their opponents ought to strive for.

In this post, I made the mistake of saying that Lindsay was implying that believers are stupid or idiots. He never actually explained the e...

• Ethics: The Multicultural Approach • How moral issues arise in our culture • “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men a...

Eastern religions don't seem to draw the nature-supernature distinction. On the other hand, they hold positions like reincarnation, whi...

I find a great deal to admire in Islam. However, it seems to be essential to Islam that it aspire to be implemented from the top down throug...

Let us take a pair of electrons, Eric and Ed. Eric the electron is an electron in the body of Richard Dawkins. Ed is an electron inside the...

If something supervenes on the physical, we need to know why it supervenes. To say that it is just a brute fact that mental state X superve...

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