Millian liberals are not fond of upstream laws. All things being equal we would, for example, rather ban firing guns at people than ban owning guns. The latter has a...
Read MoreOver on the Philosophy Experiments site, run by Jeremy Stangroom, you can do this exercise about your attitude to abortion and how consistent you are about it. As with...
Read MoreI spent yesterday evening in Sydney (leaving me pretty tired this morning after the long drive home, late at night), attending a function put together by Sydney...
Read MoreThe Transhumanist Reader, edited by Max More and Natasha Vita-More is scheduled for publication in late April. This includes a solid essay by me in which I set out my...
Read MoreI’ve been involved in a discussion on Twitter about the Ukrainian protest group, FEMEN. The paradox that my interlocutors seem to be asserting is that there is...
Read MoreSharon Hill has an article on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s website, entitled “The Trouble with Pseudoscience—It Can Be a Catastrophe”. The...
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