Fantasy Philosophy Department (again)

There seemed to be a little interest in Fantasy Philosophy Department so I put a page up for it in the side bar (the original post is still up as well). Feel free to join in (Brandon’s is here) and if you want to play a game then help me develop some rules!

Secular Ethics vs. Religious Ethics

NOTE: as I look back on this post I think it important to note that it was written in response to a religious bigot who made the claims I discuss as examples as well as the claim that there was no rights issue at stake in same sex marriage because “gays have the same rights [...]

OMG!

I just saw this video (HT BoNG). This is amazing. I want to try it immediately!!

Marriage and Civil Union

As some of you may know, in celebration of the one year anniversary of Philosophy Sucks! I have been reposting some posts that I liked but that never got the attention they deserved. Well, this post was originally posted July 13th 2007, so it is not quite this day, but it is close and there seems [...]

The Truman Show Delusion

Seriously

The (New) Agnostic’s Manifesto: Part 1 –Preamble

There is no denying that we live in an age of religious extremism; hell even the atheists are extreme nowadays. But just what ought one to believe about this? As some of you may know, I advocate agnosticism which is the view that the most rational thing to do when one is in our position [...]

The Most Ignorant thing I have Ever Heard (so Far)

Wow; I thought that “I’ll stop eating meat when animals have civilization” was the most ignorant thing I have ever heard, but I have a new challenger… “First, please skip the “equal rights” bit. [Gays] have the same rights as anyone else. Marry someone of the opposite sex and you get those rights.  –Anonymous Religious [...]

HOT Byrne

In Alex Burne’s paper Some like it HOT he says the following, So I judge the higher-order thought hypothesis to be a heroic failure. That is particularly unfortunate for me, since it is one of the few reductive accounts of phenomenal consciousness that I can understand.  Byrne is right that he understands the higher-order thought theory. [...]

Invoking God doesn’t Save Descartes from Skepticism

Descartes argues that God could not be a deciever and so his clear and distinct ideas, which presented themselves to him as self-evidently true, really were necessary truths. If it was the case that Descartes had this strong belief that there are physical objects when there weren’t any really then God would be the Evil [...]

How’d that Happen?

Apparently someone is ranking philosophy blogs and Philosophy Sucks! is ranked 12th…nice.