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Atheist protester

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

★★★★☆ This book was a much more difficult read than his earlier books Letter and End of Faith. Rather than a popular, NYT best seller list-type book, this seems to target a more scientific audience. It should be studied rather than simply read. Moral Landscape is a very technical book both in terms of philosophyContinue reading “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”

The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. Christopher Hitchens

Call for Abstracts Inception and Philosophy

Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium. Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: “Their dream has become their reality”: Inception and Nozick’s Experience Machine “How did you get here?” CanContinue reading “Call for Abstracts Inception and Philosophy”

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Philosophy Football The Germans are disputing it! Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside. Classic Python. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly with trees. Lao Tzu

Last Supper with scientists

…that greedy bastard. (Picture seen at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas.)