“Hypocrisy” has two, similar, main meanings. The first is claiming (directly or indirectly) to adhere to some moral standard that one…
Category Philosophy
A tu quoque, or a ‘you too’ statement is generally thought to be fallacious. As with most things thought…
In this post I will attempt to re-examine and even redefine the term straw man. I realise that this will be controversial;…
I have long believed that the fact that we are the result of a process of biological evolution can form the…
There’s been a bit of controversy started by “up-and-coming” atheist Peter Boghossian, about the value of Philosophy of Religion (henceforth:…
Fellow SINner Peter Ferguson of Humanisticus has a good article in the Irish online newspaper TheJournal.ie about the value…
In general, yes, when we speak of ‘free speech’ we are talking about the negative liberty to not be arrested for whatever we say (of course, there’s plenty of complexity contained within the idea of “whatever we say”, but I’ll assume that we have some reasonable notion of what that might be).
I do, however, see the claim (that this sort of free speech is the only sort of free speech worth caring about) as a bit naïve.
This relates to the controversy regarding secular arguments against abortion. I’ve heard bold assertions that we should not acknowledge…
In a recent post I defended the idea that an atheist can be against abortion, preferring to frame the…
Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist recently asked whether it makes sense for an atheist to be anti-abortion1: Insofar…