How to win an argument 15 Jul 201215 Jul 2012 It’s basically a slippery slope: As always click through. Humor Logic and philosophy
Epistemology Plantinga’s EAAN 31 Jan 201231 Jan 2012 A post now up at the Philosopher’s Carnival discusses Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN), and comment how it is like (not exactly the same) as a global skepticism argument being self-defeating. Plantinga’s argument goes like this: P1. If evolution is true, then we have modified monkey brains. P2…. Read More
General Science Crunchy goodness 20 Oct 2008 So, as many of my readers and all of my friends know, I am a moral vacuum. I routinely brush those earnest young folk aside who seek my signature on their morally worthy petitions with that statement – they usually stand there blinking. I mean, what do you do? Run… Read More
oh. I thought you were going to say “Don’t be adversarial, but instead find a reasoning that would work for them, even it’s fallacious, to push them in the right direction. Then wait and repeat.”