Atheist Ethicist

I am addressing Sean Carroll's arguments for why 'morality as science' is not possible. (See Sean Carroll: You Can't Deriv...

I am continuing to look at Sean Carroll's criticisms of Sam Harris' view on the scientific possibility of moral truth. (See Sean C...

There's no exclusive break between what 'is' and what 'ought' There's only a gap between 'is' and 'is n...

I am writing about Sean Carroll's argument as to why we cannot have a science of morality as described by Sam Harris in his talk to the ...

A member of the studio audience pointed me to another article that Sean Carroll wrote against Sam Harris' claim that there are moral fac...

One of the ways in which those who defend a religious ethic claim to have an advantage over those who defend a secular ethic is in having so...

Here is a simple and straight forward question that I got from Luke Muerhlhauser's studio audience. Is Desirism a descriptive or a pre...

Last month I wrote a series of articles concerning Sam Harris' speech at TED on the possibility of a science of morality. (See Sam Har...

What The Emotivists Get Right As a moral realist (one who holds that moral claims are propositions that, when true, tell us truths about t...

A member of the studio audience has written with the following question: My question is that I understand the bad desires being those that...

Over in another section of the blogosphere an objection was raised against Desirism regarding its use of the terms "ought" and ...

Evolution has created a human species whose members are capable of great evil. To hear some evolutionists talk, humans are incapable of ev...

A member of the studio audience objected to my statement, We cannot even argue that evolution, over time, would favor desires that contrib...