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My Interlocutor Responds

larvalsubjects wrote 55 minutes ago: Responding to my post on Darwin, my interlocutor writes: Fact of the matter, Levi, is that you are a … more →

Tags: Darwin, difference

It's Federer! Sampras! Bjorn Borg! Michael Jackson!

Jonathan wrote 2 hours ago: Arguments about who’s the greatest at any sport are a little like disputes over the will of G … more →

Tags: Sport, Art, Tennis, Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, Wimbledon, Wimbledon 2009, greatest

Quote For The Day

Dan Fincke wrote 23 hours ago: From the Buddha, via Camels With Hammers’ own Dave Smith: Do not believe in anything simply be … more →

Tags: Religion

The Case For Naturalism (And A Great Take On The Practical Import Of Descartes)

Dan Fincke wrote 1 day ago: Solid Video, the first ~5 minutes are a great little take on the practical uses of Cartesian reasoni … more →

Tags: Atheism and Agnosticism, Philosophy, Religion, religion and science, Secularism, videos, Assumptions, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Naturalism

Irreconcilable Paradoxes

michaelshover wrote 2 days ago: So in this clip, at 1:00, Pastor Mark Kielar stresses that Pastors and Teachers who claim that in Sc … more →

Tags: Theology, Heresy, God, Trinity, logic, Van Til

Wittgenstein's Most Cherished Emphasis

deadondres wrote 2 days ago: “What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence” Ludwig Wittgenstein … more →

Tags: Quotes, Structure, Wittgenstein, objects, knowledge, logic, Facts, logical positivism, World

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 days ago: The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – the theme is computer simulations – an t … more →

Tags: Cognitive Modeling, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Systems, Collaboration, collective intentionality, Complexity, Computational Intelligence, Connectionism, Distributed cognition

Protestant Dualism: Epistemology

Jonathan Henson wrote 4 days ago: *This is the 2nd post of a 5 post series. Part 2: Epistemology Perhaps the most controversial aspect … more →

Tags: John Calvin, Presbyterian, Protestant Dualism, Reformation

Adam and Eve Did What? A Visit to the Creationism Museum Makes Scientists Laugh, Cry

divoram wrote 4 days ago: From Alternet The museum argues, among other things, that war, famine and natural disasters are to b … more →

Tags: Communication, corruption, criticism, Evolution, Freedom, Future, health, History, Life

Does science lead to atheism? Not really3 comments

John wrote 4 days ago: Occasionally one’s sole impact on things is the ability to get other people to do good work by … more →

Tags: Creationism and Intelligent Design, General Science, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Social Evolution

Palin As Paradigmatic Fundamentalist and Why I Turned Against Faith

Dan Fincke wrote 4 days ago: A reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog brilliantly connects the dots: Part of Sarah Palin’s … more →

Tags: ethics, Religion, Atheism and Agnosticism, Faith, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Sarah Palin, Why I Am Not a Christian, andrew sullivan

Not Everything Is Scientifically Explicable, But

Dan Fincke wrote 5 days ago: in the interview I rather specifically said there were phenomena for which science is not the best t … more →

Tags: Atheism and Agnosticism, Creationism, Evolution, metaphysics, Religion, Biology, dennis alexander, PZ Myers, Science

Faith, Doubt, & Certainty in Christian Discipleship (Newbigin) 4 comments

Reformed Reader wrote 5 days ago: This is an amazing and truly outstanding book.  Lesslie Newbigin’s Proper Confidence (Grand R … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Bavinck, Certainty, Faith, knowledge, Lesslie Newbigin, Postmodernism, Scientific Quest, Van Til

If Faith Isn't Publicly Justifiable, How Can It Provide Justification At All?4 comments

Dan Fincke wrote 5 days ago: Chris’s reply to part 2 of my series of objections to religious moderates and intellectuals: F … more →

Tags: Religion, Atheism and Agnosticism, Faith, Justification

Philosophy and practice2 comments

Aristotle The Geek wrote 5 days ago: I have always placed politics, a term that subsumes everything that has to do with society and human … more →

Tags: Philosophy, a priori, a priori knowledge, metaphysics

Visual Agnosia2 comments

Gil wrote 6 days ago: No, this is not a vain effort to sound scientifically astute (I’m not), nor is it a an effort … more →

Tags: Apologetics, Theology

Our Caveman Brains1 comment

Dan Fincke wrote 6 days ago: No one is immune—the question is whether we cultivate or counteract our natural cognitive fall … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

The Guild of Xenolinguists by Sheila Finch

David Marshall wrote 1 week ago: It’s always interesting to observe the growth and development of jargon — a kind of insiders’ … more →

Tags: Review, Alien, Nebula, Collection, fix-up novel, A. E. Van Vogt, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, The Bone Key, Sarah Monette

Complexity 101

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 week ago: Here are some nice distinctions drawn about complexity theory by someone coming to the subject with … more →

Tags: Cognitive anthropology, Cognitive Modeling, Cognitive Systems, collective intentionality, Complexity, Computational Intelligence, financial markets turmoil, particle swarm optimization, swarm


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