Epistemology Is the soul something we should be agnostic about? 27 May 201127 May 2011 In a piece on the Scientific American guest blog, the day before mine, Sean Carroll made an interesting argument: Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely… Continue Reading
Journalism Amis to Hitchens on agnosticism 25 Apr 201125 Apr 2011 My dear Hitch: there has been much wild talk, among the believers, about your impending embrace of the sacred and the supernatural. This is of course insane. But I still hope to convert you, by sheer force of zealotry, to my own persuasion: agnosticism. In your seminal book, God Is… Continue Reading
Religion Agnostics needed! 26 Aug 2010 There’s an advertising headline I never thought I’d see. We’re conducting a web survey of nonbelievers (atheists, agnostics, doubters, sceptics etc.) So far, we’ve had a good response, with over 1700 usable submissions. We’ve got lots of atheists, but we do not have as many agnostics as we would like…. Continue Reading
Agnosticism, Atheism and Definitions On disbelief April 2006 What is an Agnostic? October 2006 Agnostic Still November 2006 On Learned Ignorance November 2006 Atheism and agnosticism… again December 2006 Another kind of Agnosticism January 2007 Atheism versus agnosticism… in Darwin April 2007 [Included to show that I am not being modernist in my use… Continue Reading
Epistemology Why agnostics don’t have holidays 6 Aug 2010 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp2Eqrvuis&feature=player_embedded] Courtesy of Leiter Continue Reading
Agnosticism and Atheism These pages provide links to all my posts of worth on the topic of Agnosticism, Atheism, and Religion. Hopefully I can just refer people to it when they ask about my views, when they turn up on a post. Well I’ve always said, There’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if… Continue Reading
Philosophy Warning: Dawkins leads to agnosticism 9 Jun 2010 It was during this time that you chaired an event for Richard Dawkins and, as a result, shifted your views from atheism to agnosticism. Why the conversion? The event sold out very quickly. The people were huge fans of Dawkins, and being amongst a group of card-carrying atheists was something… Continue Reading
Evolution Annie’s death was not the cause of Darwin’s agnosticism 6 Jul 2009 That rough punk of evolution, Mark Pallen, has a table up documenting the formulation and spread of the story that it was the horrible death of Darwin’s favoured daughter, Annie, which, he reckons, is not true. He’s working up a paper on the matter, he says. But Darwin’s stated reasons… Continue Reading
Politics And atheists and agnostics? 4 Jun 2009 Obama has said, in his speech in Cairo: The Holy Koran tells us: “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.” The Talmud tells us: “The whole of the Torah is for… Continue Reading
Logic and philosophy What is an Agnostic? by Bertrand Russell 10 Jun 2007 Bertrand Russell, a leading philosopher in his prime, was also a wonderful writer. And, it appears, many of my views were formed when I was but still Young in the Discipline of Philosophy by reading Russell. Here is an essay (stolen from here) from 1953, when I still was not,… Continue Reading