Some time ago, I wrote a few pieces on the definitions of human and human being as pertaining to the pro-life/pro-choice/abortion debate:
* Abortion: The Human/Human Being Distinction
In my piece,
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Jayman, a Thomist who takes his time to argue his case here (and for which I
I would love to see how the supporters of Trump square this circle.
Trump is making decisions. These decisions are either saving or causing the death of many Americans. Given that he is
I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some
I am going to challenge the comment of Person223 that he placed on another thread about naturalism. I thank him for at least giving something approaching a substantial claim, something that many detractors
I was having a Tippling Philosophers' debate concerning naturalism elsewhere and my friend stated this, which is worthy of debate and unpicking:
Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that
I previously introduced you to Sean Carroll's Poetic Naturalism, which I see as a naturalistic worldview entailing conceptual nominalism. Here are a few videos to explain his position:
Poetic naturalism:
The
I am a big fan of Sean Carroll for a whole host of reasons, but recently because of his book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The TL;DR version of this is:
This is why you should probably have voted for a female nominee, and one of the many reasons I favoured Elizabeth Warren. In this context, she
The other day, we had the ridiculous situation of Trump making claims about UV and disinfectant use in terms of fighting coronavirus. I even had a fight on Facebook against someone saying he
Most of you will guess where this is going because you will already have spotted this contradiction. Throughout the States over the last few weeks, we have had protestors who have been protesting
Here are some Tuesday memes for you.