Atheist Ethicist

The third step that King identified in proper civil disobedience he called “Purification” The first two steps were: (1) Information gath...

Let us assume that you have done a morally responsible job of determining that your cause is just. There is an injustice happening, and you ...

So, you want to engage in some civil disobedience. There are rules, at least according to the model of Martin Luther King. A cornerstone...

Well . . . I opted to send a letter to the editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy informing them that I saw an error in their en...

In April, I will be giving a brief presentation in my Philosophy of Law course concerning civil disobedience, focusing on Martin Luther King...

In the philosophy of law, there is an apparent dispute between “natural law theory" and “legal positivism”. “Natural law theory"...

Somebody is wrong on the Internet. That “somebody” is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The error occurs in several articles conc...

School is squeezing my time again. Updates: I have written a short paper revising Sharon Smith's Darwinian Dilemma and published it on...

The attached video shows how Fox's Tucker Carlson uses language that white supremacists love. A part of this video concerns the inte...

The first topic we will be discussing in the Philosophy of Law course is "Natural Law Theory". I have to admit that, when it com...

I fear that one of the biggest long-term costs of the Trump reign as President is going to be the loss of virtue. The moral foundation of ...

Economics is also known as "the science of value". However, it fails miserably. Before I explain that statement, I should let yo...

In my last posting, The Value of Individual and Species Survival I argued that it is unlikely that our ancestors evolved to have a natural ...

This post in the series does not need a lot of background, because it makes a stand-alone point. I am going to argue that animals generall...

I know what you're thinking. "We're already well into this discussion. There's no way I can make any sense of this. I had...

Context: In my readings, I am currently going through Sharon Street's "Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value." In ...

Allow me to briefly interrupt my critique of Sharon Street's "Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value" to critique Sam...