Atheist Ethicist

I have a question from the studio audience. I've only just discovered your desire utilitarianism, and it seems to have a lot of promis...

This is the 25th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

Greetings Readers: I spent the weekend working on the book A Perspective on the Pledge . I read the book out loud in order to try to catch...

This is the 24th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

Hello, readers. How’s life? Personally, I’ve been doing a little soul searching, trying to see how my life so far measures up with what ...

“Human” is not a morally relevant category. By this I mean that nothing of moral consequence necessarily hinges on whether or not a person i...

Today, I want to defend the proposition that we should be teaching intelligent design in science classes. Recent events (and not-so-recent...

Today’s posting takes off from my responses to a couple of that people have recently left to a couple of recent postings. They concern the f...

Once again we see evidence of two different cultures pursuing two different options with respect to how to handle conflicting view. Cultur...

This is the 23rd in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

This is the 22nd in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

I encountered a depressing story this morning of two families in Delaware who challenged the Indian River School District’s practice of prom...

I have seen a few posts about the atheist blogosphere concerning atheist proselytizing. “What should our goals be?” people are asking. It’...