Atheist Ethicist

So, here you are. You believe that a god exists. You believe that objective morality is not possible without god. How do you determine wha...

"God is necessary for objective morality to exist" tells us nothing about what is objectively moral or immoral. Many who defend ...

On the relationship between god and morality, I described two views consistent with the proposition that there can be no morality without go...

In this post, I am going to shine another light on the question of how morality is grounded on god is an unimportant question from another d...

I am altering my agenda slightly to handle a pair of alternative phrasings to the relationship between god and morality mentioned by members...

On this series, I am attempting to put various ideas on the relationship between morality and god in one convenient location. I am writing...

A member of the studio audience asked me to discuss the relationship between god and morality - specifically in the context of this article:...

Our last conversation brought up the subject of moral hazard. This is a term largely used in economics. There, it is typically used to ref...

There are issues where I wish Republicans would be Republicans and not abandon their principles - particularly where they abandon those prin...

There was a careful bit of word choice in my last post that could have easily been missed, so I want to shine a spotlight on it. It wrote ...

We are commonly tricked by a mythology of intrinsic fairness into adopting and promoting outcomes and procedures that there are few real-wor...

A member of the studio audience has, in effect, asked me to present the fundamental theory of value on which my writings and moral judgments...

A member of the studio audience has tried to explain to me how Republicans feel about asking those who make more than $250,000 pay a higher ...

As tempting as it is to scoff, there is a valid point to be made behind these petitions to secede from the union. As a response to the 201...

A member of the studio audience as asked me to address the question Why would it ever be rational to put someone else's (overall/net) ...

I dislike being partisan. I tried to join the Democratic Party once. I found too many elements as distasteful as the religious right and t...