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A Phil-for-an-ill Blog
- The Toxic Legacy of Machiavelli’s The Prince 2014-04-30“…if a Prince succeeds in establishing and maintaining his authority, the means will always be judged honourable and be approved by every one.” (Chapter XVIII) Founded on the above dubious moral axiom, which may be translated as, The end justifies the means (A), in the 16th century Niccolò Machiavelli formulates the classic dissertation on how […]Philip Jonkers
- Killing Iraqi Civilians, Like a Video Game – 2007 Baghdad Civil Massacre Perpetrated by Trigger Happy US Troops (Wikileaks) 2010-04-20Short Version Long Version Related Reading: Killing Baghdad civilians and Reuters journos from the air! Neo-Cons Defend Massacre Of Iraqi Journalists, Children Attack Video Reveals Why Pentagon Wanted To “Destroy” Wikileaks In early April Wikileaks released into the public domain specific unreleased footage documenting a tragic event that could be considered as a severe incrimination […]Philip Jonkers
- Dark Knight (2008) – Excusing the Rude & Stoic Strongman Crime Fighter 2010-03-24http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ – What is Predictive Programming? – Alan Watt – Predictive Programming; Theory and Practice – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) A decent synopsis can be read on the corresponding Wikipedia page. Police State/Martial Law Scenery Let’s start with the police state scenery shown in the movie: Not […]Philip Jonkers
- Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulationx 2010-03-01Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulation In the video above are two short excerpts from a recently filmed TED presentation (Feb 2010) by none other than Bill “Microsoft” Gates. At the heart of Gates’ address lies the central Global Warming dogma, which dictates that Co2 emitted by human beings are the primary […]Philip Jonkers
- Robocop (1987) – Promoting the Militarization of Police 2010-02-11http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/ – What is Predictive Programming? – Alan Watt – Predictive Programming; Theory and Practice – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) A decent synopsis can be read on the corresponding Wikipedia page. According to a Police magazine, “Police officers working in patrol vehicles, dressed in urban tactical gear […]Philip Jonkers
- Some questions regarding Mary K. Baxter’s “A Divine Revelation of Hell” 2010-01-14From divinerevelations.info we read: Mary Katherine Baxter was chosen by God to let the world know of the REALITY of Hell. Jesus Christ appeared to Mary Baxter on 40 consecutive nights and took Mary on a tour of Hell and Heaven. She walked, with Jesus, through the horrors of Hell and talked with many people. […]Philip Jonkers
- Commentary to the “What is Ego?” Video 2010-01-13What is Ego? (Andrew Cohen) Self-confidence can only be regarded as an attribute of the ego if the ego uses it to put other people down and tries to feel better than other people. This particular manifestation of self-confidence is called pride. On the other hand, if self-confidence is used to humbly tow other people […]Philip Jonkers
- Is it “Love vs Hate” or “Love vs Fear”? 2009-12-16In this short blog I examine the question which is a more fundamental antagonist of love: fear or hate. Hate is a strong aversive emotion connected to the subject or object of hate. The strength of hate derives from a former affection or love for that subject or object. In other words, what is hated […]Philip Jonkers
- The Downside of Talking People Down 2009-12-16There’s a risk involved in talking people down or acts of depreciation in general. If you speak negative about a certain person you’ll likely generate feelings of guilt towards that person, although the strength of these feelings depends on whether one believes that person deserves it or not. If there’s no intention of reconciliation, upon […]Philip Jonkers
- When Does Psychopathy Flourish? (Musings on Psychopathy II) 2009-12-03“Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” R.D. Laing What is a psychopath? Etymology: Psychopath psyche 1647, “animating spirit,” from L. psyche, from Gk. psykhe “the soul, mind, spirit, breath, life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body” (personified as Psykhe, the lover of Eros), akin […]Philip Jonkers
Alexander Pruss's Blog
- Chinese Room thought experiments 2022-05-11Thought experiments like Searle’s Chinese Room are supposed to show that understanding and consciousness are not reducible to computation. For if they are, then a bored monolingual English-speaking clerk who moves around pieces of paper with Chinese letters letters—or photographic memories of them in his head—according to a fixed set of rules counts as understanding […]
- Towards a static solution to Wordle 2022-05-10A static solution to Wordle would be a sequence of five guess words which would distinguish all the answer words. I've run C-based parallel nearly-brute force (with some time-saving heuristics) code to try to see if there is a static solution. No luck so far. The closest I have is flitt dawds vughy kerel combo […]
- Punishment and the law 2022-05-06Here’s a valid argument: It is only permissible to punish a person for doing what is morally wrong. It is permissible for the state to punish a person for disobeying law. Therefore, disobeying law is morally wrong. This is already an interesting and somewahat controversial conclusion. It pushes us to the view that when the […]
- Evils that are evidence for theism 2022-05-04It’s mildly interesting to note, when evaluating the evidential impact of evil, that there can be evil events that would be evidence for the existence of God. For instance, suppose that three Roman soldiers who witnessed Christ’s resurrection conspired to lie that he didn’t see Christ get resurrected. That they lied that they didn’t see […]
- An argument for probabilism without assuming strict propriety 2022-05-02Suppose that s is a proper scoring rule on a finite space Ω continuous on probabilities and suppose that for no probability p is the expectation Eps(p) infinitely bad (i.e., no probability is infinitely bad by its own lights). Suppose that s is probability distinguishing: there isn’t a non-probability c and probability p such that […]
- Truth-directedness and propriety of scoring rules does not imply strict propriety 2022-05-02A scoring rule assigns a score to a credence assignment (which can but need not satisfy the axioms of probability), where a score is a random variable measuring how close the credence assignment is to the truth. A scoring rule is strictly truth-directed provided that if c′ is a credence assignment that is closer to […]
- Generating quasi-strictly proper scoring rules 2022-04-29A scoring rule s assigns to a credence c on a space Ω a score s(c) measuring the inaccuracy of c. The score is itself a function from Ω to [−∞,M] (for some fixed M), so that s(c)(ω) measures the inaccuracy of c if the truth of the matter is that we are at ω ∈ Ω. […]
- Theism and emotional attitudes to adversity 2022-04-27Here are two three possible emotional attitudes towards great adversity: Judaeo-Christian: hope Stoic: calm Russellian: anger/despair. Now consider this argument: The appropriate attitude towards great adversity is Judaeo-Christian or Stoic. If naturalism is true, the appropriate attitude towards great adversity is Russellian. So, naturalism is false. The reason for (1) is the obvious attractiveness of […]
- Rowe-style inductive arguments from evil 2022-04-25The examples, like Rowe’s, of evils in the inductive argument from evil are chosen to make them have a certain epistemic feature F. And the claim is that P(E has F | God) P(E has ∼F | no God) by Bayesianism. So checking whether an evil has F sometimes yields an argument against the existence […]
- Arguing for divine simplicity 2022-04-22I want to defend this argument: If God is not simple, then some of God’s parts are creatures. If some of the parts of x are creatures, then x is partly a creature. God is not even partly a creature. So, God is simple. I think (2) is very plausible. Premise (3) follows from the […]
- What do we learn about God's existence from the clear failures to find justification for evils? 2022-04-21Suppose we know of some evil e1, and careful further investigation clearly fails to turn up justification that God would have to allow that evil. Let F1 be that clear failure. Now, those who defend the inductive argument from evil claim that F1 is evidence against the existence of God. But now presumably sometimes after […]
- Learning of secret wickedness 2022-04-21When people learn that some apparently really decent person was a hypocrite who secretly practiced execrable vices, that tends to shake people’s faith in God. We can explain this by noting that the case provides one with a vivid case of moral evil, which provides evidence against the existence of God. But we already knew […]
- Towards a great chain of being 2022-04-15Here is one way to generate a great chain of agency: y is a greater agent than x if for every major type of good that x pursues, y pursues it, too, but not vice versa. Take for instance the cat and the human. The cat pursues major types of good such as nutrition, reproduction, […]
- Some possible progress on continuous scoring rules and dominance in an infinite case 2022-04-14On finite sample spaces, we have the Pettigrew-Nielsen-Pruss domination theorem for strictly proper scoring rules that are continuous when restricted to the probabilities that shows that the score of any non-probability is dominated by the score of a probability. Last year, I showed that for a reasonable sense of “continuous”, this is not true on […]
- Transworld depravity is false 2022-04-12Plantinga’s transworld depravity thesis holds that in every world that God is contingently capable of actualizing (i.e., every “feasible” world), either there is no significant freedom or there is at least one free wrong choice. I will argue that transworld depravity is in fact false, assuming Molinism. But consider a possible situation A where the […]
- Consequentialism and probability 2022-04-06Classic utilitarianism holds that the right thing to do is what actually maximizes utility. But: If the best science says that drug A is better for the patient than drug B, then a doctor does the right thing by prescribing drug A, even if due to unknowable idiosyncracies of the patient, drug B is actually […]
- Defining horrendous evils 2022-04-01Marilyn Adams famously defines horrendous evils as follows: Evils the participation in which (that is, the doing or suffering of which) constitutes prima facie reason to doubt whether the participant’s life could (given their inclusion in it) be a great good to him/her on the whole. This epistemically-based definition doesn’t really capture the relevant category […]
- Respecting vs. not violating free will 2022-04-01God could pretty much guarantee that you freely choose to love him. Here’s how. God puts you in a situation where you have a non-infinitesimal probability of freely choosing to love him (this may require grace, etc.). Such situations clearly exist, since a significant number of people have freely chosen to love God. If you […]
- Deontology and the Spanish Inquisition 2022-03-31If a person acts in a way that would be right if their relevant non-moral beliefs were correct, they are not subject to moral criticism for their action. If consequentialism or threshold deontology is correct, then inquisitors who tortured heretics for the good of the heretics’ souls acted in ways that would be right if […]
- Pascal's Wager for humans at death's door (i.e., all of us) 2022-03-31Much of the contemporary analytic discussion of Pascal’s Wager has focused on technical questions about how to express Pascal’s Wager formally in a decision-theoretic framework and what to do with it when that is done. And that’s interesting and important stuff. But a remark one of my undergrads made today has made think about the […]
Bhagwad Gita Blog
- भगवद गीता के अनुसार पापों से कैसे छुटकारा पाएं 2022-03-19हिंदू धर्म में, पाप आमतौर पर अपने द्वारा किये गए गलत कर्मो के लिए इस्तेमाल किया जाने वाला शब्द है। पाप और कुछ नहीं बल्कि ऐसे कार्य करना है जो ईश्वर की इच्छा के विरुद्ध हों, या प्रकृति के नियमों या ईश्वर द्वारा दिए गए शास्त्रों के नियमों के विरुद्ध हों। अब हम अपने पापों से […]
- माया क्या है, आओ समझे। What is Maya, Let us Understand (In Hindi & English) 2022-03-07हिंदी में:माया : उस दिन मेरा एक मित्र दार्शनिक रूप से बात कर रहा था और मुझसे कह रहा था कि यह सारी दुनिया भ्रम है, वास्तविकता में इसका कोई अस्तित्व नहीं है। हम जो कुछ भी देख रहे हैं वह सिर्फ जादू आदि है। मैं उसे सुनता रहा। फिर मैंने उसे बस अपनी आँखें बंद […]
- God hears these Prayers, प्रार्थना जो भगवान सुनता है 2021-10-06Prayer is an act of addressing the God with devotion. Prayer can be done during the worship or can be done just silently in our mind. Through prayer we have a personal experience & an intimate connection with our loving God. If we pray to God with sincerity then He shall answer to our prayers... […]
- How to Motivate Yourself in depressed situations - Bhagwad Gita Perspective 2021-10-01This article deals with how you can Motivate Yourself in depressed situations of life. When you get depressed in life then its very difficult and frustrating to cope with it. With proper guidance, you can come out of depression & eventually can come out of it. To come out of depression shall... [[ This is a content […]
- Complete Universe exists in God 2021-09-25In Hinduism Lord Krishna is "true" Supreme Being and creator of the universe. Lord Krishna has said it many times in His discourse of "Bhagwad Gita". Lord Krishna is the ultimate God. The entire universe exists within Him."Lord Krishna / God is omnipresent and is in every atom of this Universe".... [[ This is a content summary […]
- Pray to God & God will answer your Prayer 2021-09-24All the religions of the world believe in one God. We all pray to God with different types of prayers. Prayer is basically an act of addressing the God for the purpose of worship. Prayer is a way of having a personal experience and intimate connection with our loving God, through which He listens... [[ […]
- Lets thank God for what we have in Life 2021-09-23Lets thank God for what we have in Life. Lets be thankful to God for, whatever, we have received in our life from Him. Let us learn to appreciate what we have in life. Listen to above musical video which thanks God in every way & its lyrics are very beautiful.You should appreciate, whatever,... [[ […]
- Peace of Mind as per Bhagwad Gita 2021-09-22"duhkhesv anudvigna-manahsukhesu vigata-sprhahvita-raga-bhaya-krodhah sthita-dhir munir ucyate" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 56) "Sri Krishna said: One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other […]
- Whole World exists in God 2020-08-24राम वही जो रमता सकल जहान Above Hindi line meaning is that "God is omnipresent and is in every atom of this Universe". But how God is there everywhere in the Universe?Meaning of omnipresent is that one who is present everywhere. God is one who in it's un-manifest, unseen, subtle aspect is always... [[ This is a content […]
- Bhagwad Gita can Change Your Life Completely 2020-05-30Reading Bhagwad Gita can Change Your Life completely. If Bhagwad Gita becomes a part & parcel of your life then it shall totally transform your life. It not only shall guide you through your life journey but shall also shape the way you live your life. If you have been reading the Bhagwad Gita,... [[ This […]
- MahaMantra - Hare Rama Hare Krishna Chant, Kirtan 2020-05-30MahaMantra - Hare Rama Hare Krishna Chant, Kirtan Hare Rama Hare Krishna is a beautiful Lord Rama & Lord Krishna Prayer. Listening to it gives peace of mind. Lord Rama & Lord Krishna are Hindu Gods incarnate & are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Jai Sri Rama, Jai Sri Krishna Jai... [[ This is a […]
- राधे तेरे चरणों में 2020-05-30राधे तेरे चरणों में Its a beautiful chant for Sri Radha. It is a powerful Mantra. राधे तेरे चरणों में is Divine Music. Daily chanting or Listening to it gives peace of mind & Love of God. Goddess Sri Radha Rani is most dear to Lord Krishna even more than His wives. It was because, […]
- Quotes from Bhagwat Gita on Soul आत्मा पर भगवत गीता के उद्धरण (Quotes) 2020-05-17Here are some of the Quotes from Bhagwat Gita on Soul. Description of Soul is done beautifully by Lord Krishna in Chapter 2 of Bhagwat Gita. Here below read that illustration in detail. नीचे भागवद गीता के कुछ आत्मा पर प्रसिद्ध उद्धरण (Quotes) हैं : "na tv-evaham jatu nasam na tvam neme... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and […]
- People who do Bad Karmas are Punished surely by the God at one time or the another 2018-09-17Sometimes we feel that those people who do Good Karmas are not rewarded & those who do Bad Karmas are not Punished by God. But it is not so. Domain of God runs for Many lives & it is not that a person is not punished by God for his bad Karmas. So here are […]
- Beautiful Mobile App for Ekadashi Vrats 2018-09-16One of the Young Creator Mr. Raghav Sharma has developed a Beautiful Mobile App for Ekadashi Vrats to be performed by Hindus all across the world. This App is very useful for the people who are interested in regular Ekadashi Fasts. The links for the said App can be found below & people... [[ This is […]
- Greatness of Chapter Eighteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-04-08Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Eighteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 18 of the Bhagwat Gita. "Lord Siva said; “My dear Parvati, Now, listen to the glories of the Eighteenth Chapter of Srimad... [[ This is […]
- कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते मां फलेषु कदाचन - Meaning 2018-04-01"कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते मां फलेषु कदाचन । मां कर्मफलहेतुर्भू: मांते संङगोस्त्वकर्मणि" ।। (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 47) "श्री कृष्ण भगवान ने अर्जुन से कहा: आप को अपने निर्धारित कर्तव्य का पालन करने का अधिकार है, लेकिन आप कभी कर्म फल की इच्छा से कर्म मत करो (कर्म फल देने का अधिकार सिर्फ ईश्वर... [[ This […]
- Greatness of Chapter Seventeen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-04-01Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Seventeen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 17 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, Now, kindly hear the nectarian glories of the Seventeenth... [[ This is a content […]
- Greatness of Chapter Sixteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-25Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Sixteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 16 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, I will now tell you the glories of the Sixteenth Chapter of... [[ This […]
- Greatness of Chapter Fifteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-18Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Fifteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 15 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, now I will tell you the glories of the Fifteenth Chapter of the... [[ […]
Bleeding Heart Libertarians
- The End 2020-06-01Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewhat vague in terms of its... The post The End appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Matt Zwolinski
- Anti-Competition as the Incel Mentality 2020-06-01Observe: Incel: “Stacy choose Chad over me. I have the right to retaliate by killing Stacy and/or Chad.” Michael Fett, a guy on Facebook, justifying Guitar Center being looted: “Guitar... The post Anti-Competition as the Incel Mentality appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- The AAAS Agrees with Magness and Me 2020-06-01New report on the state of the humanities: https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2020-05/hds3_the_state_of_the_humanities_in_colleges_and_universities.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0lCu4KOkSq62KnkXdaOOaQtMBkxJN6affH61kgOctQZks7GsEJqzulHow It concurs with what Phil and I say in Cracks and our other published work: 1. Adjuncts are not replacing full-time... The post The AAAS Agrees with Magness and Me appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- An Excerpt from *When All Else Fails* 2020-05-30Here are the concluding paragraphs of When All Else Fails. Over the past eight chapters, we’ve examined a wide range of arguments which attempted to show that government agents enjoy... The post An Excerpt from *When All Else Fails* appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- Is It Time for Private Punishment? 2020-05-29When All Else Fails is about defensive actions, not punishment. If someone had justly and rightly shot the cops who murdered George Floyd, they would be trying to stop them... The post Is It Time for Private Punishment? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy 2020-05-27Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd by crushing his neck with a knee while he lay prostrate, helpless, and handcuffed. This is precisely the kind of case When All Else... The post The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis 2020-05-20Written with Eric Winsberg and Chris Surprenant, forthcoming in The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Abstract: In spring 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, world leaders imposed severe restrictions... The post How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- What Is Public Choice? 2020-05-14Here’s some silliness from Henry Farrell. Why is public choice specifically unhelpful here? Rather than starting from the many definitions of public choice offered by its enemies, I’ll begin with... The post What Is Public Choice? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- Likeville Podcast about the Quarantine 2020-05-12Here. Eric Winsberg, Chris Surprenant, and I talk to John Faithful Hamer about the quarantine, precautionary principles, political incompetence, civil liberties, the problems with the data and models policy-makers relied... The post Likeville Podcast about the Quarantine appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- How Did the Great Recession Affect Academic Employment? 2020-05-12Here are the total number of people employed as full-time assistant professors in the United States over the past 20 years, according to the US Department of Education. The figure... The post How Did the Great Recession Affect Academic Employment? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
- Publishers no longer providing hard copies of books for review? 2022-05-16A philosopher elsewhere, who is also a book review editor at a journal, writes: Over the last few years, publishers having been increasingly pushing a policy of only providing digital copies of books for review in journals. This is making...Brian Leiter
- Survey for academic philosophers regarding "exploitation" 2022-05-16I was asked to share information about this survey, which academic philosophy readers are invited to take: We are conducting a survey about academic philosophers' (academic faculty, emerita, lecturers, post-docs and graduate students) views of what exploitation is, by judging...Brian Leiter
- "Why should capitalism self-destruct? Marx's account reconsidered" 2022-05-15This paper will be presented at a conference at the University of Amsterdam in late June; some of this material will migrate into the book on Marx I'm co-authoring with Jaime Edwards. Here is the abstract: Marx, partly due to...Brian Leiter
- A propos nothing... 2022-05-13...but the Internet threw this at me, and I must say it's very weird! Bottom line: do not forage for mushrooms, ever.Brian Leiter
- Adolph Reed on "antiracist" politics: neither left, nor egalitarian, nor democratic 2022-05-12His latest here; an excerpt: The class character of antiracist clientelism is even more transparent than its fin-de–siècle progenitor’s. Its proponents can defend the assertion that racism is the fundamental determinant of life chances for black Americans only via a...Brian Leiter
- REF 2021 results for philosophy 2022-05-12The periodic Research Excellence Framework in the UK is significant because it affects the allocation of funding to the universities. While in its origins it focused exclusively on research output, it has since incorporated criteria like "public" impact, which does...Brian Leiter
- Bertrand Russell and the "realist" revolt in metaphysics 2022-05-11Philosopher Fraser MacBride (Manchester) discusses.Brian Leiter
- Abortion, involuntary servitude, specific performance 2022-05-11Philosopher/lawyer Alec Walen (Rutgers) comments.Brian Leiter
- Lateral moves (and retirements) since the 2021 Philosophical Gourmet Report 2022-05-10In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves not reflected in the faculty lists for the last PGR (some moves that took place after the last PGR...Brian Leiter
- Philosopher Erin Kelly (Tufts) wins Pulitzer Prize... 2022-05-09...for a co-authored biography of an African-American artist who survived the Jim Crow South. (Thanks to Afton Greco for the pointer.)Brian Leiter
- In Memoriam: Joseph Raz (1939-2022) (Updated) 2022-05-09MOVING TO FRONT--ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 2, MANY NEW UPDATES After H.L.A. Hart (his teacher), Raz was the most important figure in Anglophone legal philosophy, and also made significant contributions to political and moral philosophy. During his long tenure at Oxford,...Brian Leiter
- Abortion, religion and SCOTUS, redux 2022-05-09A propos this, Professor Rick Garnett (Law, Notre Dame) writes: [I]t is not clear why the claim "human fetuses are moral subjects and this fact constrains what should be done with and to them" is any more "religious", or any...Brian Leiter
- Joseph Raz's final wishes 2022-05-07Joseph's longtime partner, Penelope Bulloch, kindly gave permission to share this message she had sent to various friends (earlier memorial notice): Joseph did not want a funeral. He left his body to the London Anatomy Office, for education or research,...Brian Leiter
- In Memoriam: T.K. Seung (1930-2022) 2022-05-06My friend and former colleague, the philosopher A.P. Martinich (Texas), called to my attention that Professor Seung, who taught at Texas for nearly fifty years, passed away in February. There is a memorial notice (and other information) here. I knew...Brian Leiter
- Jennifer Ruth, enemy of academic freedom 2022-05-06And she's now continuing her war on academic freedom (under the guise of protecting it) with Michael Berube in a very bad book reviewed here: It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom...is a maddening book....Brian Leiter
- "Abortion and Women's Rights," a 1970 film 2022-05-05Via Rogers Smith (Penn) on Facebook, I came across this striking, short documentary, about a past that may yet become the future in large parts of the country.Brian Leiter
- If Roe is overruled, what's next? 2022-05-05Illuminating discussion from law professor Michael Dorf (Cornell).Brian Leiter
- 2022 Newcombe Fellowships for PhD students 2022-05-05Just two philosophy graduate students, one at Boston College and one at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Some background on the Newcombe Fellowships and why philosophers fare so poorly, even though at the start philosophy PhD students typically got five or...Brian Leiter
- Ismael from Columbia to Johns Hopkins 2022-05-04Jenann Ismael (philosophy of physics, metaphysics, cognitive science), Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, where she will begin this fall. That's a major appointment for Hopkins,...Brian Leiter
- May blogging 2022-05-04As I mentioned awhile back, this is a very busy month--with the end of our Spring quarter looming, grading, and various other deadlines. As a result, I will be doing less blogging this month, although I will still put things...Brian Leiter
Sanjeev Sabhlok's occasional blog
- My views on Aleph Melbourne’s questionnaire re: the LGBTIQ+ communities 2022-05-16I missed filling out the questionnaire I had been sent, so I’m putting out my views here: Let me preface what I say with my general view that every individual must be equally valued and must remain equal under the law. I am aware of the horrible situation of some members of the LGBTIQ+ communities […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- A video on 14 policy questions that I’ve been asked 2022-05-16See this for context. Found time to make this video:Sanjeev Sabhlok
- If you live in Melbourne and can spare a bit of time – please print and drop off this flyer in Menzies 2022-05-14I’ve made a flyer for local printing on the home printer. If anyone is able to spare time, please print a few copies and distribute within this constituency (map).Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Further notes on my position on various issues 2022-05-13A few days ago I had responded to a voter here about a number of issues. The ACL had asked me for my views, so I responded. See this. At the Church gathering on Wednesday I provided my position (and in many cases the Australian Federation Party’s position) during the QA session – e.g. on: […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- My response to questions from the Australian Christian Lobby 2022-05-13A few days ago I completed this questionnaire (below | PNG ) for the ACL. You can find this also by going to https://vote.acl.org.au/, then to Victoria > Menzies then looking for me. I’m the only candidate to have completed the questions for Menzies. Clearly not many people in Menzies who stand for religious freedom. […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- India’s lockdowns most likely caused 100-1000 times greater harms than any benefits 2022-05-13Now that the CBA numbers for Australia have been decided upon by Gigi Foster (in case you missed it), I thought I’d spend around 10 minutes to outline the implications for India. For India the growth in debt was not so huge as in Australia. But it was significant, nevertheless – India’s debt to GDP […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Email I’ve sent out regarding Gigi Foster’s cost benefit analysis of Australia’s lockdowns 2022-05-12Sent this out a short while ago: Finally, a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the lockdowns and border closures in Australia Dear all Over the past 8-9 months, I’ve assisted Prof. Gigi Foster in preparing a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of lockdowns and border closures in Australia. I put in over 200 hours into this effort. Prof. Foster […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- My final speech at the Doncaster Church of Christ 2022-05-12On Youtube.Sanjeev Sabhlok
- More information to confirm that Narasimha Rao was ENTIRELY responsible 100% for Babri demolition 2022-05-09I’ve written a lot about this in the past, but Mr Devasahayam has sent me his recent article which provides further extensive details about what transpired when the Babri Masjid was demolished. From Babri to JP Narayan: Tales of Two Civil Servants Who Defended Democracy I did not know Mr Godbole personally but he had […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- My preliminary draft speech for a candidates forum at the Doncaster Church of Christ on 11 May 2022-05-06PRELIMINARY DRAFT – I’d appreciate comments/ suggestions at sabhlok@gmail.com. I’ll keep updating this, so this is work in progress. === Dear Mr Bob Hodges and friends I thank the organisers from the Doncaster Church of Christ for giving me the opportunity to outline to you, the constituents of Menzies, why I am best placed to […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
Tom Gilson
- The Very Alien Question of Marriage (from The Stream’s Pastors’ Corner) 2022-03-25(Also published at The Stream.) What is marriage? What is it for? Why does marriage matter? Ten years ago, those were the hottest questions on the planet. Now they’re … nothing. No one even asks anymore, at least not in public. That’s okay to a certain point: I don’t mind the public debate going silent […]Tom Gilson
- Find Your Authentic Self, or Find an Authentic View of God? 2022-02-08Everyone’s in a rush to find their “authentic self.” We’re going about it the wrong way, though. We find our true selves by giving up false gods and finding the true God. We’ve missed his reality, however. Even Christians have, in my view. That’s why I say in this message to The River Church in […]Tom Gilson
- Pastors’ Equipping Series: Sample Sermon on Christian Exclusivism vs. Pluralism — Christmas Themed! 2021-12-14Christians aren’t supposed to say we have the one truth, right? So goes the opinion around our culture, anyway. We’re supposed to be “humble” about our beliefs; to give equal worth and respect to all other beliefs. That’s what culture tells us, but what does God say? Clearly Jesus claims to be the one way, […]Tom Gilson
- Pastors’ Equipping Series: Sample Sermon on the Faith-Science Challenge (Special Focus on the Virgin Birth) 2021-11-05Faith vs. Science: It feels like David approaching Goliath, with no sling and no stones. Or at least, that’s the way a lot of people want us to feel it. As pastor, you know there’s pressure on Christians to deny the faith in favor “almighty science.” In cooperation with The Stream’s Pastors’ Corner, we offer you a […]Tom Gilson
- Alisa Childers: ‘Reading Through Your Book Was … Exciting’ 2021-10-07Alisa Childers, gifted speaker, former ZOEgirl singer, and author of the outstanding book Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, graciously invited me on her podcast to talk about my own book Too Good to Be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. I really appreciate her words about the […]Tom Gilson
- Pastors’ Equipping Series: A Sample Sermon on Critical Race Theory 2021-09-30Updated: See the summary explainer article at The Stream! Critical race theory: Could you preach on it in church? Teach it in a small group? How would you approach it? Should you even address it in church? That last question calls for a definite answer yes. It’s too influential, and too much of a false […]Tom Gilson
- So You Think Critical Race Theory Is a Useful Analytical Tool? 2021-09-13I was with my new friend Howard that afternoon, and he was pumping me with questions about some of my projects so he could do some graphic design work. That’s still in process, and you’ll see the result when we’re done with it. We have a lot of opinions in common, including thoughts on critical […]Tom Gilson
- At Last! Moving Forward Into the Heat to Light Pastors’ Equipping Series! 2021-08-30The time has come, at last, tell some of the story, and then very soon to launch the new church-equipping initiative that I’ve been building toward for months, or maybe for most of a lifetime. It’s called Heat to Light: Leading Your Church Through Cultural Heat to Spiritual Transformation. (With just one more meeting coming […]Tom Gilson
- Cincinnati Apologetics Conference with Alisa Childers September 10-11! 2021-08-11I’ll be speaking as well. Kudos to Tim Waugh, pastor of Faith Community United Methodist Church, who wants to be a light for the truth of Christ in his community and among United Methodists! Click for the full-definition flier, downloadable: The post Cincinnati Apologetics Conference with Alisa Childers September 10-11! appeared first on Tom Gilson.Tom Gilson
- Creative Common-Sense Apologetics — Video Here! 2021-07-21They say you can’t use the Bible to prove the Bible; it’s circular reasoning. Yes. Except… there are exceptions. Valid ones, not fallacious. The Bible actually demonstrates its own reality through its own internal character, along with some general common-sense knowledge about books and literature with which we can compare it. That’s one perspective you’ll […]Tom Gilson
- Update on Pastor Equipping Ministry: ‘Heat to Light: Guiding Your People Through Cultural Conflict to Spiritual Transformation’ 2021-07-01It’s coming together in ways I never expected, and that’s a good thing. If you’ve been following me here on the blog or the podcast, you may be wondering exactly what it’s going to look like, and when it begins for real. I’ve been calling it “Heat to Light: Guiding Your People Through Cultural Conflict […]Tom Gilson
- Apologists and Pastors Connecting for Ministry: Stories of How You Can Do It 2021-06-26(Hear more of the story at the Thinking Christian podcast.) Apologists need to connect with pastors, and vice versa. We need each other. Pastors need the best possible understanding of changes in our culture, which apologists are uniquely equipped to offer. Apologists need to learn practical ministry from pastors, and they also need church leadership […]Tom Gilson
- RELEASED TODAY ON KINDLE! Too Good to be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality 2021-06-17It came a day or two earlier than I expected, so I’m scrambling to catch up — but I’m very excited to announce the release at last on Kindle — of Too Good to be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. Includes a new preface for 2021! Typically Amazon takes a few days […]Tom Gilson
- Apologists and Pastors, Here’s How We Can Finally Work Together (And We’d Better Get To It!) 2021-06-13I met a pastor from my home town at a conference a couple years ago, actually a pastors’ pastor, who ministered to dozens of others in our area. I was grateful when he agreed to meet for lunch. As we started in over our chips and salsa, I asked him to tell me his story, […]Tom Gilson
- Pastor, Your Job Is About Cross-Cultural Missions Now. Could You Use Some Help? 2021-06-01The world has changed, and the pastor's job description must, too. It's cross-cultural missions and ministry now wherever you may be. The post Pastor, Your Job Is About Cross-Cultural Missions Now. Could You Use Some Help? appeared first on Tom Gilson.Tom Gilson
- A Conversation with Gay/Progressive Leader Brandan Robertson 2021-05-10I had a most interesting conversation on Thursday with Brandan Robertson, who’s a leading spokesman for gay and progressive Christianity, on everything from the character of Jesus, to the nature of the Bible, to Christianity’s connection to slavery. Not much on homosexuality; it wasn’t one of our topics this time. We connected originally through an […]Tom Gilson
- Streaming Live on Thursday: Conversation with LGBT Activist Pastor Brandan Robertson 2021-05-06Brandan Robertson is a globally prominent gay activist pastor with whom I’ve been exchanging emails over the past couple weeks. It’s been a cordial conversation, and he and I have agreed to move to a live online video conference tomorrow evening. It starts at 7 pm Eastern time, and will be showing live on The […]Tom Gilson
- Heat to Light: Our Lost Moral High Ground, and How to Begin Reclaiming It 2021-05-03Remember when Christianity held the moral high ground? Maybe not. Depends on how long you’ve been around. It sure isn’t the case now, at least not in the minds of many of our contemporaries. (This post accompanies the Thinking Christian Podcast of the same title.) I’m talking perception here, not reality, but perception is powerful. […]Tom Gilson
- Moving From Heat to Light: Worldviews in Conflict 2021-04-25(You can listen to this blog post here.) Cultural conflict doesn’t come from just nowhere. Ours has been building for a while. The intensity of it comes out of Westerners’ incredibly diverse worldviews, our way of seeing reality. For much of European history most people shared a more-or-less common worldview, and the same has been […]Tom Gilson
- Heat to Light 2: Grace and Truth 2021-04-14(This post accompanies my latest podcast, Episode 2-2, Grace and Truth in Heat-to-Light Conversations.) I’m continuing today with my extended series on “Heat to Light: From Cultural Conflict to Spiritual Transformation.” (That title is still a bit in flux, but it’ll settle in soon enough.) Here’s where we’re heading with this. I see three principles […]Tom Gilson
Thoughts Arguments and Rants
- Value and News in Evidential Decision Theory 2018-05-11A discussion of what desirabilities in Jeffrey's theory of decision ultimately mean.Brian Weatherson
- Absolute Value 2018-05-11An objection to the version of Desire as Belief that Stephen Daskall defended in "Absolute Value as Belief".Brian Weatherson
- Over Time, Citations Get More Uneven 2017-05-18In an earlier post, I compared the distribution of citations within Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009. And I noted that although the two ended up in similar places, they got there in different ways. Journal of Philosophy was largely relying on some hugely cited papers; while the distribution of citations in Philosophical […]Brian Weatherson
- Citations are Getting More Evenly Distributed 2017-05-12I claimed yesterday that citations within journals are getting more egalitarian. To verify this, I pulled the citation data for two prominent years: The Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009. I couldn’t find an easy way to get just the citations in Arts & Humanities, so this table includes all the citations in […]Brian Weatherson
- Two More Graphs 2017-05-11Just as a follow up to the previous post, here are the graphs for six more journals. First their citations in the other 31. Then their citations in the whole of Web of Science Arts and Humanities. (Note that this sometimes severely understates how many citations they have elsewhere in the academy, especially for philosophy […]Brian Weatherson
- Changes in Who is Cited 2017-05-11The dataset of citations I’m looking at starts in 1976. And I can break down not just which journals are cited, but which years of those journals are cited. (And which years they are cited in, but I’m setting aside that data for now.) So as well as asking which journal is the most cited […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Graphs, One Journal at a Time 2017-05-10The big graphs I posted earlier have so much information, that much of it gets lost in the mess of lines. So I’ve broken down the data to create a graph just involving each journal’s interactions with the other 31. Here are the graphs. (As always, click on each for a larger image.) British Journal […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Graphs and Methodology 2017-05-04Last week I posted some graphs showing how often various journals cite other journals. Here is one of those graphs, just to remind you what they looked like. I didn’t say particularly clearly how I got the data, or even exactly what the graphs meant. So here’s the long methodology post showing how I ended […]Brian Weatherson
- Citations of History Journals 2017-04-27Yesterday I posted some data about how often journals cite other journals. And one of the things that jumped out was how rarely generalist journals cite various specialist journals. I suggested an inference from that: generalist journals are not as generalist as they are often thought to be. And I think that’s largely correct, and […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Patterns Across Journals 2017-04-26I’ve been interested for a while in the different things that get attention in different philosophy journals. Part of what got me interested in this was looking at the ways that different well known articles get cited, or not, in different journals. Below is a table showing how many times (according to Web of Science), […]Brian Weatherson