Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, and host of @RealAtheology. Ardent realist about everything except Theism and The Self. In my view, God and I are the problem. π³
Joined May 2021
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In case you missed it, here is the recent debate I had on creation vs. evolution. I'll be releasing it soon as an episode of @RealAtheology too.
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Iβm impressed with this Smith-Corona Coronet Electric 12. I bought this blue machine for $10 expecting problems. Instead, it works perfectly. Aside from a dry ribbon and some fading on the keytops, itβs in excellent condition. The paint is immaculate; there isnβt a scratch on it.
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I hope itβs obvious that science textbooks themselves are not the justification for the science within them.
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Then again, Hope is a dead comedianβ¦
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The goal, to put it bluntly, is the True and the Good. The freedom we want is the freedom to find it. ~Susan Wolf
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If you're not into 3.5k word philosophical analyses of prestige television, written in fugue states of complete oneness with the transcendent, with continuous references to Aristotle, Kierkegaard, and Weil, why are you even following me?
Link in comments, if you want it!
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i hate it when i ontologically commit to something that turns out not to exist
what the hell
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Jun 12
Read Moby-Dick. The Great American novel.
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Faulkner has depth that is unrivaled. His greatest novel is probably Absalom! Absolom!, but my favorite will always be The Sound and the Fury. Benjy is one of my favorite characters in all of literature. Utterly brilliant writing from start to finish.
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Read Faulkner.
You can read his work a hundred times and I promise you that you still wonβt know the story.
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Started reading some Iris Murdoch the other week, and WOW! I am hooked.
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I developed my objection to the moral argument the other day in a brief. The idea is that moral facts, whether objective or subjective, are more plausible than the existence of God, and the entities postulated by secular moral theories are more plausible than those from theology.
An underdeveloped objection to the moral argument is that moral anti-realism, as a supposition, is more plausible than theism. All parties concede the existence of embodied desires and moral psychology, but the existence of an unembodied mind is an ontological speculation.
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The moral argument holds certainty hostage to conjecture by grounding our deepest convictions in theological speculation. Every religious doubt is a pinprick threatening to send goodness and justice adrift. But we do not moor battleships to balloons.
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An underdeveloped objection to the moral argument is that moral anti-realism, as a supposition, is more plausible than theism. All parties concede the existence of embodied desires and moral psychology, but the existence of an unembodied mind is an ontological speculation.
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To be sure, the objection isn't that moral anti-realism is true; therefore, the moral argument is unsound. That objection has been developed. My objection has to do with ontological parsimony and the implausibility of postulating unembodied minds in addition to human psychology.
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Any additional virtue that God's ontology adds to our meta-ethical theorizing does not outweigh the intrinsic implausibility of postulating an unembodied mind or a divine nature. Moral anti-realism more than makes up for any objections against it by postulating familiar entities.
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I think he meant to say seek pleasure and avoid pain. other than that, and another minor typo, he is exactly right.
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I agree that often all things considered we have reason to seek pain or avoid pleasure. But I think pain always gives is a *reason* to avoid, a reason that is often counterbalanced by other considerations.
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Kyle Clark asked Colorado GOP candidate for governor Victor Marx whether voters should believe heβs lived "one of the most extraordinary lives in human history," or whether heβs "a liar and a fraud."
John Oliver: βThat might be the first event in history won by the moderator.β
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βRight now, CBS News is on fireβ
Scott Pelley: βWe need adult supervision and at the moment we donβt have it. We have people whoβve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. Itβs not their fault, but they donβt know what theyβre doing. Thereβs a subtle political bias that Iβve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we donβt. We can save this. Itβs possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fireβ
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Theists who run Cosmological Arguments from Contingency try to exclude "free choices" from the domain of what the PSR applies too, but Francken and Geirsson show why this doesn't work:
philarchive.org/rec/FRARSR
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I got my hands on an Olympia SM3 De Luxe in great condition for its age. I adore this machine; the look, the feel, the snappy sound, and the design are nearly perfect. Itβs a single-owner example, well maintained, and often nicknamed the βMercedes-Benzβ of typewriters.
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