Abortion: cause for cognitive dissonance
Last year a pregnant woman was run over and killed by a truck in Chicago. Doctors detected a fetal heartbeat and delivered the baby. According to pro-choice ideology, the mother… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Radical skepticism plus libertarianism is a disaster for two main reasons
1. Radical skepticism is false. 2. It is impossible to achieve a stable social order without reference to a common, objective reality that exists independent of the subjects who comprise… Read more »
Is the fact/value dichotomy itself a fact or a value?
If it is a fact then it cannot function as the source of a normative claim. After all, you can’t get an ought from an is. So the adherent of… Read more »
Is morality possible on materialism?
At first glance it may seem silly to assert that you can’t believe murder is wrong unless you believe in God. But that’s not the right question. If we are… Read more »
CS Lewis on subjectivism
Keep in mind we are far deeper down the hole than we were in CS Lewis’s day. In 2020 subjectivism is firmly established as the reigning public philosophy, and you… Read more »
The distinction between “gender” and biological sex is question-begging
The distinction between “gender” and biological sex is question-begging because the concept of “gender” already assumes that such a distinction exists. To invoke “gender” (or its ambiguously related concept, “gender… Read more »