Why agnostics don’t have holidays 6 Aug 2010 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp2Eqrvuis&feature=player_embedded] Courtesy of Leiter Epistemology Humor Philosophy Religion
General Science Indifferentialism 30 Jun 2009 The Sensuous Curmudgeon has a new (old) take on the accommodationism debate: indifference. To quote him/her/them: Our position is to totally disregard what we consider to be a sectarian disagreement among various denominations about whether scripture should be read in a manner to deny verifiable information about reality. One might… Read More
Biology Names and nomenclature in classification 17 Jul 2010 One of the main focuses in the literature, especially in biology, regarding classification is the problem of nomenclature, of names. Many treat classification as being all about names, an error that is akin to mistaking not the map for the territory, but the names on the map for the territory…. Read More
Philosophy I wonder what it *is* that I actually do? 14 Oct 2010 A note on credit: I have been accused elsewhere of having leached off Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, by Zack Weiner, whose cartoons I often use. Zack has not complained, and I am using the code he generates at his site, unmodified, and the images are from his site, not reposted… Read More
Well, Christmas is a mish-mash of Saturnalia and Germanic pagan symbolism (and Jesus I guess). But for all the agnostic academics…… Cogito Ergo Summer
You go to other people’s homes for holidays. If they pray at any time during the festivities, you think about what’s on TV the next day or compose a shopping list (hmm, Tide, bread, milk, Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems magazine) or judge everyone’s clothing and haircuts (cousin Elvis really needs a new outfit).