{"id":1416,"date":"2013-01-02T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:08:23","slug":"russell-blackford-joins-us-at-sin-please-welcome-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/01\/02\/russell-blackford-joins-us-at-sin-please-welcome-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Blackford joins us at SIN &#8211; please welcome him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Philosopher Russell Blackford, author (editor) of the awesome book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?tag=atipplingphil-20&amp;link_code=wsw&amp;_encoding=UTF-8&amp;search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=50+Voices+of+Disbelief&amp;Submit.x=0&amp;Submit.y=0&amp;Submit=Go\">50 Voices of Disbelief<\/a>, has joined the writing team here at SIN. This is great news, given Blackford&#8217;s great work and high profile in the world of philosophy of religion. Or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/416UVdkN-bL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-63,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" alt=\"50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/>His personal website can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/randjblackford.customer.netspace.net.au\/russellindex.htm\">here<\/a> where you can read his bio etc. Russell&#8217;s wikipedia page is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Blackford\">here<\/a>. His blog\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metamagician3000.blogspot.com\/\">Metamagician and the Hellfire Club<\/a>\u00a0is the one which has moved <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/\">here<\/a>, now known simply as The Hellfire Club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Please welcome him, and check out his books if possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0His opening post starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019m delighted that my personal blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au\/\">The Hellfire Club<\/a>, has found a new home here at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/\">Skeptic Ink Network<\/a>. First, my thanks to John Loftus and Ed Clint for inviting me here. It\u2019s an honour to join a site with so many\u00a0fine, independent\u00a0writers and\u00a0thinkers, and I\u2019ll feel a sense of responsibility as I make my contribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The invitation was offered to\u00a0me some time ago now, but I was slow to make the move, mainly because I wanted to get a better sense of how it might work while I was also contributing\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.talkingphilosophy.com\/\">Talking Philosophy\u00a0<\/a>(\u201cTP\u201d) &#8211;\u00a0 a site that I\u2019m\u00a0equally committed to (and which I\u00a0urge you to follow).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019ve now had enough experience to be sure\u00a0that there\u2019s\u00a0room\u00a0in my life for both TP and The Hellfire Club, and that I won\u2019t be winding down the latter, as I\u00a0contemplated\u00a0at times during 2012. Neither the TP administration nor the Skeptic Ink administration has placed any pressure on me to exclude certain topics, but I\u00a0now have a fairly intuitive idea of what will\u00a0go where. With that settled in my mind, I\u2019m very happy to join a network of broadly like-minded, and very capable,\u00a0writers, with all\u00a0the advantages of networking and mutual support that this can bring. I already know (and like!) some of these folks, and I look forward to \u201cmeeting\u201d\u00a0the others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2012\/12\/31\/hello-world\/\">in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher Russell Blackford, author (editor) of the awesome book 50 Voices of Disbelief, has joined the writing team here at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,165],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-website","tag-russell-blackford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}