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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

Tag: Alex Rosenberg

Free Will, an essay by Jenann Ismael

Philosophy is at its best when it is digging around at corners in our world-view that we don’t understand, forcing … More

Albert Einstein, Alex Rosenberg, In Cold Blood, Quantum Mechanics, Richard Dawkins, SamHarris, Stephen Hawking

The Eliminative Materialism of Paul Churchland and Alex Rosenberg

Eliminative materialism is the only real materialism. This is official BQTA doctrine (not necessarily endorsed by all contributors). To get … More

Alex Rosenberg, Eliminative Materialism, Paul Churchland

What is Morality, anyway?

If science is the truth about reality, how can there be morality? Moral responsibility seems incompatible with science. Human bodies … More

Alex Rosenberg, Bernard Williams, Cindy Sherman, E. O. Wilson, Jonathan Haight, Joshua Greene, Meta-ethics, Nihilism, Slavery, social insects

Nihilism? That could be exhausting!

What if we tried to pursue reality to the bitter end? Not to look for what we hope to find, … More

Alex Rosenberg, Atheism, Daniel Kahneman, David Brooks, Gregg Caruso, Leon Wieseltier, Michelle Goldberg, Nicholas Kristof, Nihilism, Patrick Deneen, Ross Douthat, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Steven Pinker, The Big Lebowski, The New Republic

Dialog on Morality, part III: Sail Away

Today, slavery is universally condemned as immoral, but until fairly recently, slavery was an accepted aspect of life. Most societies … More

Alex Rosenberg, Carter Gillies, Greil Marcus, Nihilism, Paul Boghossian, Racism, Randy Newman, Relativism, Slavery, Stanley Fish, The Stone

Dialog on Morality, Part II: Moral Relativism

We are continuing our discussion of morality, inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory and the insights it provides into … More

Alex Rosenberg, Carter Gillies, David Hume, J. S. Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, Lebowski, Nazis, Plato, Rick Lenon, Rodney King, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, United Nations

Season of the Witch

Can science be the source of human values? The only source? That’s the idea behind Secular Scientific Humanism. SSH is … More

Alex Rosenberg, Copernicus, Darwin, David Brooks, Evolution, Galileo, Michelle Goldberg, Reformation, Ross Douthat, Sam Harris, Sean Carroll, Steven Pinker

What’s your philosophy?

What’s your philosophy? One philosopher tells a story that when he gets this question at parties, he answers “Never wait … More

Alex Rosenberg, alt-right, Bertrand Russell, Christof Koch, David Brooks, Michel Houellbecq, Sean Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Ricks, UFOs
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