Political Quirkiness
Quirks of nature happen all the time. When we pay attention to an inconsistency, our motivation is usually to delegitimize...
Philosophy
Libertarians Don't Get a Lot
Have we ever tried to argue with a libertarian? Do we think that there is something fundamentally wrong with a...
Dennett on Free Will
… so that we can cope with the world around us effectively—if we are normal. There are unfortunate human beings...
Rethought Free Will
The apparent paradoxes emerge from a false theory of mind and language that assumes that freedom can be defined abstractly...
Rethinking Free Will
I thought an outline of the problem of free will would help anyone that is interested in the debate. To...
Feynmen and Self
I was forced to take an Uber today, and the driver was talking about how wonderful it is not knowing...
Catholics on Relativism
The key point here is that the relativism that the religious right accuses us of is a strawman. Most of...
True For You, But Not For Me
I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else. I think that relativism is very probably false....