Poster template by Priyam
Published 6 Apr 2019
Category: Pop culture
Published 15 Aug 2018
The wealthy are often sociopathic. Why?
I have been encountering, in these days of political “incorrectness” (i.e., bastardry), more and more well-to-do folk who treat other folk as if they were lesser beings. Ranging from stepping over homeless people (literally) to failing to give way when you drive a Korean car and they a European one (or some varieties of Japanese).
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Published 14 Aug 2017
Phobosophy
As everyone knows, philosophy comes from the two Greek words philo and sophos, and means, roughly, the love of wisdom, although as everyone also knows,…
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Published 9 Apr 2017
The Abstract and the Concrete, or, the Road to Fascism
I was thinking about the way in which the anti-abortionists justify their views. I have always said that “Pro-Life” is a misnomer. Instead of being…
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Published 5 Mar 2016
Secular Calvinism
Australia is one of the most secular of developed nations. At the last census, 22% of people marked “No religion” as their affiliation, and the…
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Published 3 Jun 2014
An unjust government
This one is about Australian politics. International readers may ignore it. There has been a lot of media and internet hype and fun had about…
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Published 19 May 2014
Morality and evolution 4: Is morality fitness-enhancing?
[Morality and Evolution 1 2 3 4 5 6 7] If we agree that morality enhances fitness, because it enables cooperation, several questions arise: what sort of fitness enhancement does it…
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Published 12 Mar 2014
Accommodating Science overview
I have done quite a lot of blogging under this heading lately so I thought it might be useful to get all the posts used…
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Published 9 Mar 2014
Accommodating Science: the backfire effect, and conclusion
[This is the final section of the book. I will return to the section on neurobiology and religion later.] The backfire effect If science is…
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Published 4 Mar 2014
Accommodating science: Faith and reason
[This is the penultimate chapter. I can’t be bothered trying to get the references or footnotes included in the posts, so you’ll have to wait for the book. Some of this has appeared on the blog before in less well written form, so don’t worry about the deja vu]
All religious systems, it is confessed, are subject to great and insuperable difficulties. Each disputant triumphs in his turn; while he carries on an offensive war, and exposes the absurdities, barbarities, and pernicious tenets of his antagonist. But all of them, on the whole, prepare a complete triumph for the Sceptic; who tells them, that no system ought ever to be embraced with regard to such subjects: For this plain reason, that no absurdity ought ever to be assented to with regard to any subject. A total suspense of judgement is here our only reasonable resource. [Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, VIII]
