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I  distinguish between what I call skeptical threat arguments, which assume that we have the faculties we have but then say that theism, not...

 From an essay I am writing on the Anscombe legend.  Now most of Anscombe’s argumentation is aimed at establishing what I will call thesis A...

  The Anscombe incident is often trotted out as an object lesson for those foolish enough to engage in Christian apologetics. An example of ...

Here is a DI2 post on the definition of naturalism. 

Here.   It's my dedicated AFR blog. 

 An interview of me on the AFR.  Here.

1. No act is morally motivated if it can be fully explained in terms of nonmoral causes. 2. If materialistic atheism is true, then all actio...

  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...