Tagged “philosophy”
- The Primacy of the Scientific Method: Why Empirical Rigor Is the Only Path to Knowledge
- Beauty, Truth and the Size of Working Memory
- An Ode to Individuality
- Religions Did Not Evolve, They Merely Survived
- Is Religion an Ideology?
- Human Intelligence Is Probably on the Lower Rungs of the Ladder
- There Is No Such Thing as the "Appearance of Design"
- Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution: The Failure of Ambiguity
- Word Embeddings and the Arbitrariness of the Sign
- Wittgenstein Is to Word Embeddings What Alchemy Is to Chemistry
- Philosophy: Anti Education
- The Limits of Understanding: Do the Social Sciences Actually Explain Anything?
- A Society Can Be Watched Closely and Still Be Free, on Three Conditions
- Christianity and Human Rights: A Historical Reality Check
- Can You Put a Number on the Divinity of Jesus?
- The Myth of Sacred Literature: Holy Books Judged as Books
- Mathematics Is More Imaginative Than Any Mythology
- Euthyphro Is the Wrong Weapon
- Free Will Is the Last Consoling Story
- The Self Is a Useful Illusion
- Introspection Is a Press Secretary, Not a President
- Prediction Is the Real Magic
- The Anthropocentric Conceit and the Long Demotion
- Consolation Is Not Evidence
- The Argument That Convicts Itself
- Try to Define "The Good of the People" and See What You Get
- You Want the Smartest Surgeon and an Ordinary Prime Minister, and That Tells You What Governing Is
- The Engineers Pay for Everyone's Fantasies
- The Two Kinds of Believers and the Hypocrisy of the Sophisticated
- Kant's Categorical Imperative Is a Misreading of Game Theory
- The Imagination of Science Dwarfs the Imagination of Fiction
- Vicarious Atonement: Punishing the Innocent to Forgive the Guilty
- Hell: Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes
- The Incoherence of the Omni-Properties
- Omniscience vs. Free Will: The Contradiction at the Heart of Theism
- The Euthyphro Dilemma: Why Morality Cannot Come From God
- Divine Hiddenness: The Argument from Reasonable Non-Belief
- The Equivocation of "God": One Word, Many Gods
- The Problem of Evil: Why Suffering Breaks the God of the Philosophers
- The Cosmological Argument Does Not Get You to God
- What Divine Command Theory Actually Implies
- Faith Is Not a Virtue. It Is an Anti-Epistemology.
- The Consent of the Governed Is Not Given, It Is Assumed
- Would You Want God to Exist? Depends Which One
- A Book Idea: Culture as Something to Shed
- Consciousness Is Probably Not Binary
- Free-Floating Rationales: Why Nobody Wanted the Policy You Are Living Under
- A Society Can Be Too Free to Defend Itself From the People Inside It
- Plato's Cave Has No Exit, and Science Says So Openly
- Arguing About What an Ideology Really Means Is the Misdirection
- Precision Falls as You Climb the Ladder of the Sciences
- Rawls Designed Principles for Institutions and Forgot What Institutions Do to Principles
- Institutions Made Us Moral, Philosophers Just Wrote About It
- A Field With Traditions Is Confessing Something
- Philosophy Is Hard to Read Because It Had to Be
- Every Ideology Explains Less Than the One Before It, and That Is the Point
- What Physics Can Teach the Fields That Are Not Physics
- Universal, Ancient and Respected Are Not Evidence That a Thing Was Good
- Russell's Fear That Culture Decides Truth
- Everyone Who Wants World Government Has No Route to It, Except One
- We Demand Freedoms We Have Never Weighed
- We Have No System for Distributing Wealth, and Cannot Admit It
- If a Label Carries No Properties, What Is It For?
- Habermas Was Right About the Channels and Wrong About the Manners
- Consciousness May Be the Override Switch on a Crude Emotional Calculator
- Is Suffering as Real as We Think It Is?
- Pain Is the Price of Being the CEO
- "I Decided" Without Free Will
- Small Anarchism Could Be Right and Still Not Worth Supporting
- We Want Purposes That Evolution Did Not Give Us
- Frankl's Logotherapy Dodges the Contradiction It Should Confront
- A Book Idea: Are We Steering, or Drifting?
- Freedom as a Conserved Quantity
- People Do Not Actually Want the Truth
- AlphaZero Proves We Can Justify Anything
- People Mistake the Emotion a Topic Provokes for the Topic's Depth
- Fighting the Identities Imposed on You
- The Definition of Good Will Not Hold Still
- Sowell's Constrained Vision Fails Exactly When It Matters Most
- To Understand Religion Is to Understand Atheism
- You Could Be Consistently Libertarian in 1970 and Socialist in 2020
- "Everyone Is Entitled to Their Own Beliefs" Is Nearly Empty
- Learn to Disrespect What Cost You the Most to Learn
- Beauty Is Not Truth — It Is an Artifact of Our Brain Size
- Logic Cannot Bring Anything Into Existence
- Maxims That Sound Deep but Tell You Nothing
- "You Lack God's Perspective" Is a Catch-All, and Catch-Alls Are Worthless
- Why Philosophy Is in Such a Dismal State
- The Three Stages of Religion, and Why Stage Two Is Not the End
- Ranking Humanity's Problems by Tractability, Not Severity
- Political Problems May Need a Language We Have Not Built Yet
- Truth Is Not Short, Which Is Why Falsehood Spreads