Atheist Ethicist

I am sooooooooooo far behind on answering questions from the studio audience. I am going to try to concentrate on that this week. From Ath...

We are now entering the last session in the Beyond Belief 2006 conference . Our first speaker is Richard Sloan. It is particularly fitting t...

Daniel Dennett was invited to give a presentation at the Beyond Belief 2006 conference, and had accepted. However, at the time of the conf...

Yesterday and today I have been trying to illustrate how desire utilitarianism works by applying it to a real-world concern of pornography. ...

I regret that I am getting way behind in answering questions from the studio audience, and I promise to make a concentrated effort to remedy...

My wife always tells me, “Don’t post angry. You’ll say things you regret.” But, some days, something touches a little bit of ire. Once a...

There are two Big Questions that people trying to understand desire utilitarianism will eventually ask. Atheist Observer asked one of them ...

Greetings: I am having one of those days in which I would rather chat than write about any subject in details. The item which has my att...

Paul Churchland, professor of philosophy at University of California, San Diego, rose to address the Beyond Belief 2006 conference to prese...

In my continuing weekend series discussing the presentations at Beyond Belief 2006 , we are at the end of the second-to-last episode. We hav...