November 18, 2008 – 11:33 pm
I’m working on a revise and resubmit, and there’s an interesting issue that I’m going to have to deal with. So let me begin with a question. Is it possible to forgive someone for an action, but fail to believe that the action was wrong?
I’m inclined to say yes. Here’s three potential motivations.
Moral Skepticism
Suppose someone [...]
October 16, 2008 – 10:34 am
Here’s the abstract of one of NPR’s Morning Edition stories this morning.
Morning Edition, October 16, 2008 · A Nebraska state senator last year filed a lawsuit against God. Ernie Chambers sought an injunction against God because of widespread death and destruction. Judge Marlon Polk has thrown out the lawsuit. He says there’s no way [...]
October 2, 2008 – 1:02 pm
Attention Philosophers of Religion and Theologians: You’ve been asking the wrong questions! You’ve been asking, “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
You should have been asking, “Why is there Bill O’Reilly, rather than no Bill O’Reilly?” Surely the fool must admit that there is a God when he reflects on that question!
I kid you not [...]
September 4, 2008 – 8:18 am
(Clip from The Onion)
KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded to [...]
Andrew Moon just kicked of our Knowledge of God Reading Group over at Prosblogion with a discussion of the first thirty pages from chapter 1.
March 30, 2008 – 10:08 am
Calling all metaphysicians! Would you like a simplified explanation of the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics? Would you like it to be presented to you using Super Mario World? Well, look no further.
Interesting Philosophical ApplicationsMetaphysical ModalitySome people think that the parallel universes in the multiverse hypothesis could play the role of Lewisian Possible Worlds. I [...]
February 28, 2008 – 2:43 pm
In the last few hours, I’ve stumbled on quite a few cool bits of philosophy…
1. Mike Almeida has a pretty interesting post on Multiverse responses to a variety of versions of the Problem of Evil here.
2. Carrie Jenkins just suggested that we might be able to handle Kripkenstein Undetermination Worries in a (roughly) analogous way [...]