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Two weeks ago I talked about how badly Hitch dropped the ball in that debate. Here's what he could have said instead.
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A couple of odd contrarians have been making the case for the compatibility of two of the most apparently incompatible ideas in the universe. Let's take a look.
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Noam Chomsky and his co-authors attribute the "moral indifference" of ChatGPT to purely cognitive limitations. They may be overstating the case on that issue--and missing a deeper Humean point.
I find much of Hitchens's humanistic moral critique of Christianity compelling--and he was an immensely talented debater. But when he went up against a real philosopher of religion, it was a disaster.
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Compatibilism is supported by deep intuitions about responsibility and control. It can also feel "obviously" wrong and absurd. Slavoj Žižek's commentary…
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In a pair of battling Jacobin articles, Christoph Schuringa argues that analytic philosophy is intellectually narrow and deeply tied to anti-communist…
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Sam Harris has done a lot to promote strident skepticism about free will and moral responsibility. His arguments don't stand up to scrutiny.
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Peterson loves to score culture-war points by bashing atheists, but the closer you look at his own religious views--and his version of pragmatism about…
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Here's why you should find the challenge the paradoxes pose to classical logic philosophically interesting--even if you're the kind of person whose eyes…
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I don't agree with my friend Slavoj Žižek about everything but he's an insightful thinker. I have nothing but contempt for attempts to denounce him as a…
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The Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen is often understood as criticizing John Rawls's theory of justice "from the left." Let's take a closer look.
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A deep dive on David Hume's essays on suicide and the afterlife
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