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  Supporters of abortion are concerned about women being stigmatized for getting abortions. I wonder if women who refuse abortions and have ...

 Planned Parenthood does more than abort babies. If you defunded it, or vaporized it, would the abortion rate go up or down? I think Hillary...

 Between Max Baker-Hytch and the Cosmic Skeptic.  Here. 

  ..you may say, if you like, that the bold determinist speculator is free to disbelieve in the reality of the will. But it is a much more m...

  The philosophical climate in which I grew up in Oxford was one of extreme aridity. The ability not to be convinced was the most powerful p...

  For Easter. Christopher Derrick wrote: "Of all C. S. Lewis's books, I suggest the one the world needed least is Miracles." I...

 For Lewis punishment is about retribution,  which is different from revenge. Revenge is not limited by what someone deserves, and typically...

If we are simply material beings, aren't our actions determined by the laws of  physics? Particles in the brain are governed by the laws...

  The Catholic Church clearly teaches that sexual abuse of children is a grave sin. They may have failed to penalize and remove offenders th...

 If you mean by a cause something that contributes to the occurrence of an event, then the statement "every event has a cause" doe...

 He seems to think anti-abortionists are misguided absolutists.  Here. 

 It's hard to argue against the idea that you should care for you own family before others, although this goes against utilitarianism. W...

Are there any "tribal" or "status"  limits to who deserves to be treated as a real human being.  Cultures  develop stron...

"Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know."...

  If one person says "McDonald's hamburgers are tasty" and another person says "No, they taste awful," arguably the ...

Here is an argument from an essay in psychology on psychic phenomenon.  We did not examine the data for psi, to the consternation of the par...

 Idealism was the position that C. S. Lewis adopted (not Christian theism) when he was persuaded by the argument from reason.  Here.  As for...

Obama: “Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good...

Apparently there is a split in the pro-choice camp. Some reject the idea that they are pro-abortion, others embrace it.  Apparently to be ...

  Causal and sorting processes seem to me to be qualitatively different processes from reasoning. Reasoning involves the knowledge of logica...