Category: Philosophy
Philosophy: Contact with death improves people’s behaviour?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“‘Once we started developing this study we were surprised how much research showed positive outcomes from awareness of mortality,’ said Arndt. ” more
Trying to understand the psychology of fraud
| May 6, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Psychology |
” … a bigger puzzle remains: How did Toby’s fraud spread? How did a lie on a mortgage application balloon into a $7 million fraud?” more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke (late of NCSE) vs UD commenter Joe on science as it studies “the usual course of the world” applied to signs of design
| May 3, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Design inference, ID Foundations, Philosophy, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the course of the exchanges on Dr Matzke’s clip on what “science” says can and cannot be so regarding miracles, he has made an interesting comment, here at 15: . . . I still haven’t seen anyone present a good argument as to why we can’t just say that science is the study of… more
Assessing Thomas Kuhn’s legacy: “It’s not so clear that there will be any more revolutions in physics”
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
If Hacking or others want to put down Kuhn, they’ll have to do better than this. more
He said it: Newton in Principia, on rules of reasoning for experimental philosophy
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, ID Foundations, Philosophy, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
The ongoing debates over methodological naturalism have pointed us back to Newton’s Rules for scientific reasoning. So, thanks to Paul Halshall of Fordham University’s Modern History Sourcebook, let us cite for reference: ___________________ >> Modern History Sourcebook: Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Excerpts] [The Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy] RULE I We… more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke vs Dr John Lennox on the Laws of Nature and Miracles
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the ongoing Methodological Naturalism thread, at no. 66, Dr Matzke is on record: massive observational evidence and the logic of our understanding of natural laws rules say that that miracle thing can’t happen. In short he holds that the laws of nature forbid miracles. (And recall, here, we are speaking about the late publicist… more
Does analytical thinking cause religious faith to diminish?
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Religion |
” … the latest new atheist trend in studying religion: The claim that analytical thinking dissipates it” more
How to promote radical skepticism
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy |
Philosopher Tim McGrew offers this method. more
Is the dismissal by asserting “fallacy of personal incredulity” itself a fallacy?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, language, Philosophy, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
Yesterday, UD’s News announced a free chart of fallacies. I thought, oh, yay, let’s download. But, once I began to look at the chart, I noticed that it presented Plato, Socrates and Aristotle in a way that seemed to mock the orthodox Christian triune concept of God. (Did it ever strike the creator of the… more
Can a paradigm in science be true?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
The question might be easier to examine if we turn it around and ask, can a paradigm be false? more
A free chart of logical fallacies
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
You knew the argument didn’t make sense, and now you will know the name for the specific way it doesn’t. more
Philosopher asks, if a social security card doesn’t prove you exist, what would prove God exists?
| April 22, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“However tempting it may be to set a high bar for a proof, the higher we set the bar the less reasonable it becomes to demand such a proof.” more
A materialist account of the human mind that allows for free will?
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Mind, News, Philosophy |
Bok offers a good, stirring answer but, surely, he is whistling in the dark? more
James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up #V: Another perspective on ID that is too often overlooked – functional stability
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
“In other words, Darwinism is not only wholly inadequate as a general framework for understanding life and evolution – it is actively pernicious.” more
Elliott Sober lecture on evolutionary theory as “probabilistic”
| April 12, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“… its truth does not entail that it is causally complete.” more
Was Anders Breivik “not-insane”?
| April 10, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Animal minds, Cosmology, Darwinism, Design inference, Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, language, News, Philosophy, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
Other psychiatrists now find Norway massacre gunman Anders Behring Breivik ‘not insane’ – prison now possible “The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the… more
The Reason for Imperfect, Self-Destructing Designs — Passover and Easter Thoughts
| April 7, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Philosophy, Religion |
[HT: idnet.com.au] Would an intelligent designer deliberately build a biological system that self destructs. Can something be intelligently designed that is reproductively unfit? Absolutely! But first consider the essay ID’s Broken Watchmaker Analogy, where a Darwinist unwittingly concedes an important point (in an otherwise confused, ignorant and illogical rant): Products of intelligent design typically have… more
A Wild and Outrageous Creativity
| April 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy |
“When we look at the world of living things we don’t see the drabness we might expect of an evolved world. ” more
James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up #IV: The theory of natural selection is wholly inadequate to deal with the idea of purpose
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
“Ockham’s Razor cannot be explained by direct application of Maupertuis’s Least-Action Principle. And yet the puzzling similarity of the two principles remains.” more
Free will “touches everything we value” – yet it is an illusion?
| March 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
Own your own wreckage, okay? Don’t try to pretend it is everyone’s wreckage. more