Category Archives: Current Affairs

Santa Claus: Myth or Lie?

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

At The Secular Outpost, Jeffery Jay Lowder has a brief blog piece about Tom Flynn, the Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and some of the reasons Flynn puts forth about why parents should not tell their children … Continue reading →

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The Synthese Debacle and the Louisiana Legislature

Posted on May 28, 2011 by

Much has been written about how the editors of the philosophy journal, Synthese, botched the handling of objections which were raised about at least one or two of the articles in the Evolution and Its Rivals special issue (Volume 178, … Continue reading →

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More on Lutz, Laudan, and Demarcation

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

In On Lutz on Laudan and demarcation, Paul Newall notes that: In his (draft) paper On an Allegedly Essential Feature of Demarcation Criteria of Science, Sebastian Lutz claims that demarcation does not require a criterion that is both a necessary … Continue reading →

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Second Response to ‘The Politics of Demarcation’

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

Abstract. The most widely disseminated arguments against Intelligent Design have failed to produce invariant and objective demarcation criteria sufficient to establish that ID cannot be a matter of science. Ultimately, ID opponents rely heavily upon the fact of there being … Continue reading →

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First Response to ‘The Politics of Demarcation’

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Abstract: This is in response to The Politics of Demarcation, but the discussion here is largely limited to matters relating primarily to some assertions about whether demarcation is best regarded as a non-issue. In the comments section of this blog … Continue reading →

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The Heart of Islam

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

In the preface to his book, The Heart of Islam 1, Seyyed Hossein Nasr says: The world is thirsty for information about Islam, especially in America, yet this thirst has generally not been quenched with healthy water. In fact, a … Continue reading →

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Rejecting collective guilt

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

Hans Kundnani commented on a cover story in Die Zeit, which reported on attitudes among German teenagers toward the Nazi past. The general sentiment, it seems, was “Was geht das mich noch an?” (Perhaps “why would it still matter to … Continue reading →

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