Category Archives: Philosophy

Center for Inquiry’s “Religion under Examination” conference: “GOOD WITHOUT GOD”

Posted on July 21, 2010 by

This past weekend, the Center for Inquiry’s Summer Institute 2010, “Religion under Examination,” brought some extremely interesting and intelligent talks by John Shook, Vic Stenger, Ron Lindsay, Edward Tabash, Derek Araujo, and Robert Price.  Topics included: The value of, and case for, secular objective … Continue reading →

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“Free to be you and me?” …not really – Part I of IV

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

Due to the large scope of this essay and the fact that this is a blog, not a graduate school term paper, I have broken it down into four parts.  For this post, I only include the first: Part I: … Continue reading →

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Morality is objective. What does this really mean and why should we buy it?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by

Disclaimer:  I am not espousing any particular normative moral theory; rather I only wish to advance a meta-ethical one: moral objectivism. The answer to the first part of this inquiry is by no means definitive, so I will present what … Continue reading →

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