Two Types of Knowing
If the world outside of our thoughts was of the same essence as the world of our thoughts, there would be only one kind of knowing. Yet philosophers have long recognized that knowing comes in two...
View ArticleWhy Are We Alive?
We go to work, we eat, are entertained or entertain others with movies, music, tv, drama and comedy, reading the best Midas Letter Stock News, we party with friends, couple, have sex, yet behind all...
View ArticleDoes Life Have Meaning?
Perhaps the most popular objection to naturalism is the claim that without a God life is meaningless. Let’s take a look at it. This is actually a two-part claim under a natural world view life has no...
View ArticleDaylight Atheism
Adam has written another elegant post over at daylight atheism: We must face the facts: our lives, in the grand scheme of things, are short. Like the leaves falling from the tree, we bloom, flourish,...
View ArticleFixing Classical Arguments
In my last post, I wrote about how the premises of classical deductive arguments could be construed as either statements of logical definition or of observed fact. I argued that philosophers often...
View ArticleWhat Lies at the Dark Heart of Atheism?
Once God is extinct, claimed one of Dostoyevsky’s characters in The Brothers Karamazov, everything is permitted. And this is a common theist mantra. What unfathomable perversion lies at the dark heart...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are Atheism & Morality Compatible? (part 1)
“Why There Is No Such Thing as a Good Atheist” That’s the title of a recent blog post by Pastor Rick Henderson on HuffingtonPost.com. Despite the provocative title, Henderson is sincerely trying to...
View ArticleThe Basics
For thousands of years philosophers have gotten the science of our existence wrong. They have mistakenly assumed that we know or perceive the world around us; we do not, we cannot. They have believed...
View ArticleMuse is the Antidote
My poetic muse has always been an alter-ego, chastising me for being too much in my head, too cerebral. Looking back over the years I can see that my muse has presented a more or less consistent...
View Article
