More pro-abortion irrationality
The mere existence of beliefs in the mind does not establish the veracity of those beliefs. You’d think this would be particularly obvious when the beliefs in question are diametrically… Read more »
A thought experiment on abortion
Imagine a hospital that offers fetal mutilation services. Say, removing limbs, poking out eyes, snipping off ears and noses, performing lobotomies. All in utero and with the mother’s consent. After… Read more »
Incorrigible mental states
In some of the arguments explored here I refer to the concept of incorrigible mental states. For example, I have claimed that laws cannot be based solely on incorrigible mental… Read more »
SOGI laws are incoherent
The state cannot impose the mutual affirmation of the incorrigible self-images of all individuals on all individuals. It is literally impossible.
Augustine on defending the faith
After the sack of Rome by the Goths, Augustine and his Christian contemporaries faced attacks from an entrenched pagan culture that blamed Christian practice for its troubles. Then as today,… Read more »
The false gospel of Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi visited a church to say this: “The heartbeat of being an antiracist is the ability to confess.” And this: Just like one is seeking to really sort… Read more »
How do naturalists think about the state of affairs described by the Pythagorean Theorem?
Not the theorem itself, but what the theorem describes. Not the equation, a2 + b2 = c2, but what the equation captures. What sort of thing do they consider it… Read more »
Social construction is incoherent
To understand why, let’s consider how it handles the claims of its rival theory, realism. Consider X, where X is something claimed to be socially constructed. For example, sex: whether… Read more »
Liberal pro-choice arguments are anti-Christian
Raphael Warnock says “I believe unequivocally in a woman’s right to choose.” He also says abortion is “healthcare” and a “human right” and “reproductive justice.” Here is a question for… Read more »
The ideological framing of kids “presenting as transgender”
To say that a child “presents as transgender” sounds clinical but it’s really just ideological framing. First, the metaphor of “presenting” connotes a black box that yields up data about… Read more »