December 31, 2011
Naturalists and atheists generally regard empirical truth as a virtue, sometimes even the prime virtue. My ears perk whenever I hear them preach any form of moral realism, as always I’m curious to hear how they can ground what they say (I’d be a moral “error-theorist” if I were an atheist). In discussions of morality these days, many naturalists and atheists seem to grasp desperately for something like a complete morality, but I don’t think we can answer the ultimate moral question(s).
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December 4, 2011
Every once in a while I do a blog shout-out. Last time, it was Andrés Ruiz. This time—since i’ve been absent for a while—I’ll do two: Unshielded Colliders (Jonathan Livengood) and Disputed Issues (Stephen R. Diamond). I discovered both through their comments at CSA. I like Diamond’s exploration of semantics and the way our language shapes our beliefs, and I like Livengood’s general “hold on let’s take a cold hard look at this” approach to making sense of data. Great stuff, both are now in my links.
