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Education / Advocacy

• Atheism
• Religion and Science: Where the Real Conflict Lies.
• Science
• Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Kuhn on Discovery
  • Karl Popper on Observation
  • Goodman on Induction
  • Coherentism
  • Epistemology
  • Logical Positivism
  • Mind-Body Question
  • Intuition
  • Stefan Molyneux plagiarising John Locke
  • Dostoyevski
  • Unsung Philosophers
  • Free Will
  • Obective/Subjective Distinction
• Veganism
• Feminism
• History
• Legal
• Psychology

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Activism

• Running a YouTube channel
• Public Lectures

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Ethics

• Virtue
• Transcendental nihilism

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Ethical issues

• Transhumanism
• Free speech
• Gay rights
• Abortion
• Death Penalty
• Economics
• Advertisements

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Conversatons with & Responses too

• ToolTime
• Epydemic2020
• Eugene Curry and Garret Merriam
• Jared Lee Loughner
• Noelplum99
• Clifford
• Antybu
• Matt Dillahunty
• HowTheWorldWorks
• Glenn Beck
• Theoretical Bullshit
• XOmniverse
• MiggetyMike1
• Migkillertwo
• Viritas
• shanedk
• Mike
• onetruechurch
• TogetherForPeace
• Kristi Scott & Hank Pellissier

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Education / Advocacy

Atheism

• Eugene Curry and Garret Merriam Debate Does Science Point to the Existence of God
• I Do(n’t) believe in God (or “Watch This Atheist RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE With This Christian!”)
• Cthulhu Strong
• Insane Clown Posse feat. Bill O’Reilly — Miracles (You Can’t Explain That.)
• Schrodinger’s Cat TAGs Logical Absolutes (in the Nuts)
• Faith, Certainty and Doubt–Kierkegaard and c0nc0rdance
• Euthyphro’s Trilemma
• We All Preach The End of the World
• William Lane Craig is not the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
• More on Misology: Using Reason Against Reason
• The League of Christian Misology
• Evidence for Skepticism
• Why aren’t there more one-eyed Christians?
• Do Christians Really Believe What They Think They Believe? An Introduction
• The Ethics of Belief: a Critique of Clifford’s Evidentialism
• More on Miracles
• The Treachery of Images of Muhammad
• Why (And How) I am Participating in Everybody Draw Mohammad Day
• Mereology is a Harsh Mistress: Why William Lane Craig (and migkillertwo) are wrong
• Upon Meeting God – A Clarificaiton
• Glenn Beck Answers My Question!
• Logic and Belief (A Response to Matt Dillahunty)
• Miracles Prove Nothing
• What if Glenn Beck is Actually Mentally Retarded?
• How Could You Know It’s GOD? (A Response to Theoretical Bullshit)
• Portrait of an Apatheist: Sisyphus Redeemed
• Disproving Biblical Literalism (In Three Words)
• Evil, Free Will and the Library of Babel
• Atheism and Faith
• Do We Choose What We Believe
• Designing Women (And Men)
• Why Don’t Christians Kill Their Children?
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (3 of 3)
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (2 of 3)
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (1 of 3)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believen Heaven”) (Part 4 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believen Heaven”) (Part 3 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believe in Heaven”) (Part 2 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believe in Heaven”) (Part 1 of 4)
• Deciding to Believe
• Biblical Literalism
• Honesty, Atheism and John Locke
• Reply to Mike on Heaven
• This Life Is Not A Test
• Why YOU Don’t Believe in Heaven
• Re: The Meaning of Life as an Atheist
• Why a Fetus is not a Person
• reply to onetruechurch
• Tri-omni incoherence
• Re: Eradicating the riddle of Epicurus: the problem of evil
• From Saint Augustine’s “The Litteral Meaning of Genesis”
• Re: The Cosmological Proof for God’s Existence
• Re: The Blasphemy Challenge
• Re: The Achilles Heel of Atheism
• Re: Atheism – Greatest Danger to Humanity
• Re: RCR 71: Christopher HItchens Debates Mental Midget
• Re: Why does faith deserve respect?

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Religion and Science: Where the Real Conflict Lies.

• Plantinga – Dennett 12 (Final)
• Plantinga – Dennett 11
• Plantinga – Dennett 10
• Plantinga – Dennett 9
• Plantinga – Dennett 8
• Plantinga – Dennett 7
• Plantinga – Dennett 6
• Plantinga – Dennett 5
• Plantinga – Dennett 4
• Plantinga – Dennett 3
• Plantinga – Dennett 2
• Plantinga – Dennett 1

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Science

• Badasses in the History of Science: Archimedes
• Badasses in the History of Science (Teaser)
• Badasses In The History of Science: Tycho Brahe
• Badasses in (the History of) Science
• The Sociology of Science:(3 of 3)
• The Sociology of Science:(2 of 3)
• The Sociology of Science:(1 of 3)

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Science

• Explanation in Science: Causation, Unification and Pluralism (2 of 2)
• Explanation in Science: The Covering Law Model (1 of 2)
• Van Fraaseen’s “Constructive Empiricism” (3 of 3)
• Scientific Realism and Epistemic Immodesty (2 of 3)
• Varieties of Scientific Realism (1 of 3)
• Naturalism and Realism (3 of 3)
• Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science (2 of 3)
• Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science (1 of 3)
• Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science: Paul Feyerabend (2 of 2)
• Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science: Paul Feyerabend (1 of 2)
• Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science: Imre Lakatos (3 of 3)
• Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science: Imre Lakatos (2 of 3)
• Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science: Imre Lakatos (1 of 3)
• How Does Science Work? Three Views (Part 3-1)
• A Brief History of Science, Part 3: The Copernican Revolution to the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis (2-3)
• A Brief History of Science, Part 2: Renaissance to the Copernican Revolution (Part 2-2)
• A Brief History of Science: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (Part 2-1)
• Two Statues: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Part 1-1)
• Radical Feminist Epistemology and Postmodernism (2 of 2)
• Feminist Perspectives on Science (1 of 2)

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Kuhn on Discovery

• Kuhn–“Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice” (Lecture 8, Part 3 of 3)
• Kuhn on Scientific Progress and Relativism of Truth (Lecture 8, Part 2 of 3)
• Thomas Kuhn on the Incommensurability of Paradigms (Lecture 8, Part 1 of 3)
• Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions (Lecture 7, part 2 of 2)
• Thomas Kuhn on Normal Science (Lecture 7, Part 1 of 2)

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Karl Popper on Observation

• Problems with Popperian Falsificationism (Lecture 6, Video 3 of 3)
• Popper on Demarcation Science vs Pseudoscience (Lecture 6, Video 2 of 3)
• Popper on Observation and Hypotheses (Lecture 6, Video 1 of 3)

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Goodman on Induction

• Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction (Lecture 5, video #3 of 3)
• The Hypothetico-Deductive Method and The Ravens Paradox (Lecture 5, Video 2 of 3)
• The Problem of Induction and Russell’s Chicken (Lecture 5, video #1 of 3)

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Coherentism

• Bid Time Return (A Response to Migkillertwo on Arm-Chair Philosophy)
• Reply to Migkillertwo

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Epistemology

• 1 Answer for Veritas
• Second Reply to Veritas
• Foundationalist and Coherentist Epistemology: A Reply to Vertias48

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Logical Positivism

• The Fall of Logical Positivism (Part 4-3)
• The Rise of Logical Positivism (Part 4-2)
• Classical Empiricism and Logical Positivism (Part 4-1)

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Mind-Body Question

• Aborting Mind-Body Dualism (Part 2: Rebutting Migkillertwo’s Arguments)
• Aborting Mind-Body Dualism (Part 1: A Primer on Mind-Body Dualism)

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Intuition

• The Kalam Cosmological Fallacy: A Brief History of the Failures of Intuition

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Stefan Molyneux plagiarising John Locke

• The Damnation of Philosophy

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Dostoyevski

• Rebellion

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Unsung Philosophers

• Unsung Philosophers: Blaise Pascal
• Unsung Philosophers: Diogenes

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Free Will

• How to Dissolve the Problem of Free Will and Determinism
• Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge
• Evil, Free Will and the Library of Babel
• Aborting Mind-Body Dualism (Part 2: Rebutting Migkillertwo’s Arguments)

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Obective/Subjective Distinction

• The Messy Objective/Subjective Distinction
• Kuhn–“Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice” (Lecture 8, Part 3 of 3)
• You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are

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Veganism

• Antybu on Moral Vegetarianism
• Antybu on Vegetarianism
• Consuming Kids
• Life Feeds on Life, Evil Feeds on Ignorance

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Feminism

• Radical Feminist Epistemology and Postmodernism (2 of 2)
• Feminist Perspectives on Science (1 of 2)
• Thoughts on the Burka (Reply to XOmniverse)

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History

• “I’m Explaining a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda
• Astronomy! Cryptography! Epistemology! Oh my!
• You’ll Never Believe How Close We Came
• One day, Pablo PIcasso was on a Train… (A Defense of Modern Art)
• A Moment in Intellectual History
• A Brief History of Science, Part 3: The Copernican Revolution to the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis (2-3)
• A Brief History of Science, Part 2: Renaissance to the Copernican Revolution (Part 2-2)
• A Brief History of Science: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages (Part 2-1)

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Legal

• What is defamation? (A lesson for HowTheWorldWorks)

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Psychology

• My Moment of Status Anxiety

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Activism

Running a YouTube channel

• Interviews & BlogTV
• Rapture BlogTV, and Doctors Without Borders Charity Event
• A Few Facts and One Lie
• Coming Distractions
• Apologies, Gratitude and Promises
• Thoughts on Jared Lee Loughner

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Public Lectures

• You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
• Where is the Love? Three Theories on the Nature of Love
• Dying Without God
• What’s so Queer About Gay Marriage?
• How to Dissolve the Problem of Free Will and Determinism
• In Praise of Failure (or “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again.”)
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (3 of 3)
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (2 of 3)
• Militant Apatheism-Sketch of an Argument (1 of 3)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believen Heaven”) (Part 4 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believen Heaven”) (Part 3 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believe in Heaven”) (Part 2 of 4)
• Reason, Emotion and the Afterlife (or “Why YOU Don’t Believe in Heaven”) (Part 1 of 4)

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Ethics

Virtue

• On Virtue Ethics
• Unsung Philosophers: Diogenes
• Unsung Philosophers: Blaise Pascal
• The Ethics of Belief: a Critique of Clifford’s Evidentialism

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Transcendental nihilism

• You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
• Secular Humanism and Transcendent Morality (2 of 2)
• Secular Humanism and Transcendent Morality (1 of 2)
• A Moral and Legal Thought Experiment
• This Life Is Not A Test
• Deciding to Believe

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Ethical issues

Transhumanism

• Interviews & BlogTV

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Free speech

• [MIRROR] Does the Left Hate Free Speech? (Part 1) – ContraPoints

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Gay rights

• What’s so Queer About Gay Marriage?
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 4 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 3 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 2 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 1 of 4)

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Abortion

• Is the Violinist Analogous to a Fetus? (A Reply to MiggetyMike1)
• A Statisical Portrait of Abortion in the US
• Fetal Pain, Fetal Consciousness and Abortion
• Why YOU Don’t Believe Life Begins At Conception
• Hard Cases for the extreme pro-life position
• The Theological Argument for the Permissability of Abortion

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Death Penalty

• Death Penalty Follow Up
• The Death Penalty and the Strange Paradox of Innocence
• Games of Life and Death

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Economics

• Response to shanedk

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Advertisements

• Consuming Kids

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Conversatons with & Responses too

ToolTime

• Life Feeds on Life, Evil Feeds on Ignorance

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Epydemic2020

• Euthyphro’s Trilemma

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Eugene Curry and Garret Merriam

• Eugene Curry and Garret Merriam Debate Does Science Point to the Existence of God

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Jared Lee Loughner

• Thoughts on Jared Lee Loughner

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Noelplum99

• Noelplum99’s Naive Moral Relativism

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Clifford

• The Ethics of Belief: a Critique of Clifford’s Evidentialism

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Antybu

• Antybu on Moral Vegetarianism
• Antybu on Vegetarianism

 

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Matt Dillahunty

• Logic and Belief (A Response to Matt Dillahunty)

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HowTheWorldWorks

• What is defamation? (A lesson for HowTheWorldWorks)

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Glenn Beck

• Glenn Beck Answers My Question!
• What if Glenn Beck is Actually Mentally Retarded?

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Theoretical Bullshit

• How Could You Know It’s GOD? (A Response to Theoretical Bullshit)

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XOmniverse

• Thoughts on the Burka (Reply to XOmniverse)

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MiggetyMike1

• Is the Violinist Analogous to a Fetus? (A Reply to MiggetyMike1)

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Migkillertwo

• Mereology is a Harsh Mistress: Why William Lane Craig (and migkillertwo) are wrong
• Aborting Mind-Body Dualism (Part 2: Rebutting Migkillertwo’s Arguments)
• Bid Time Return (A Response to Migkillertwo on Arm-Chair Philosophy)
• Reply to Migkillertwo

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Viritas

• 1 Answer for Veritas
• Second Reply to Veritas
• Foundationalist and Coherentist Epistemology: A Reply to Vertias48

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shanedk

• Response to shanedk

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Mike

• Reply to Mike on Heaven

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onetruechurch

• reply to onetruechurch

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TogetherForPeace

• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 4 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 3 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 2 of 4)
• My Discussion with TogetherForPeace on Gay Marriage (Part 1 of 4)

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Kristi Scott & Hank Pellissier

• Interviews & BlogTV

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