Atheist Ethicist

Yesterday I referenced a Defense Department report that said that wars in the 21st Century are going to be fought largely over oil and water...

In a recent comment, one of the members of the studio audience, anton, wrote: I would like to "enter" a widely accepted statisti...

Negative ads: They really do work. This is what a former political advisor to Hillery Clinton tells us in an editorial in Political titled...

I have a vision of the future in which a person l move us closer to this state are to be preferred to those policies that move us away from ...

I watched the opening ceremony to the Olympics over the weekend, and I have been favorably impressed. I have actually been quite intereste...

As I mentioned in my last post, I am writing about the relationship between Desire Utilitarianism on the one hand, and egoism and free will ...

From a wide variety of independent sources in the past few weeks I have been questioned on whether I am an egoist, and of the role of free w...

Yesterday, a military court convicted Salim Ahmed Hamdan of supporting terrorism. Hamdan was allegedly Osama bin Laden’s driver and bodygua...

It seems that astronomers are still debating the definition of a planet . I love this debate because it illustrates a point that I have b...

It is old news now that the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy has condemned PZ Myers’ act of desecrating a Eucharist , declaring: Attacking...

In my writings I continually use the slogan: There is no fact/value distinction. There is only a fact/fiction distinction. Value (includin...

A couple of members of the studio audience made some comments recently that give me an opportunity to recap some of the central claims of de...

In an opinion piece in Salon, Karl Giberson wrote about What's Wrong with Science as Religion. . He spoke about ways of knowing that are...