Philosophy & Ethics

Shameful XXIst Century Crusades

Mariano Crociata: a name, a promise. The general secretary of CEI (the Italian Episcopal Conference) secures a spot in the front page of Italian newspapers today by declaring that pharmacists in Italy should be allowed to object to the distribution of phar ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 23 2009 - 11:23am

On The Scope Of Skeptical Inquiry

There has been much discussion lately on this blog and elsewhere about the relationships among skepticism, atheism, and politics. ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Oct 26 2009 - 11:10pm

Is Man Evil?

I do believe that a vast majority of men and women are evil and that furthermore we really ought to deal with this fact rather than being politically correct and ‘believing’ that all Men are inherently good. On what do I base my saying that Man is evil? ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 27 2009 - 11:35am

Sad Of The Earth

SAD OF THE EARTH Ayad Gharbawi As thinking creatures we must evolve mentally towards achieving a humanity within ourselves for whereas physical growth proceeds unguided mental growth requires a continual and firm guidance on the part of ourselves with the ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 28 2009 - 10:36am

Is The Mind Unique For Each Person?

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Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 28 2009 - 10:50am

David Chalmers And The Singularity That Will Probably Not Come

David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like hu ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 6 2009 - 11:04am

The Fingerprints Of God

I found the premise of Barbara Bradley Hagerty's new book " Fingerprints of God " quite intriguing.  The author, raised as a Christian Scientist, attempts to look into alternative religions and science to see if her faith is justified.  Ther ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Nov 11 2009 - 10:30am

Welcome to Moral Bytes

This blog is my way of looking at moral values from an evolutionary perspective. If we agree that evolution explains human behavior, then it must be true of moral behavior as well. Today I will post the first two essays in a series that argues for taking ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:30pm

Birth of a Movement

(Essay 1 in Series Evolution&Morality) Can you believe it? It has been a year since a majority of Americans voted for and elected Barak Obama as president, shattering once and for all the proverbial marble ceiling. ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:40pm

Gods Unvanquished

(Essay 2 in Evolution&Morality Series) The atheistic blowback to the overbearing religiosity of the Bush era has been something of a boon for the publishing industry. In an uncertain and weakening economy, they discovered a new profitable genre almost ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:47pm