Atheist Ethicist

Over in another section of the blogosphere an objection was raised against Desirism regarding its use of the terms "ought" and ...

Evolution has created a human species whose members are capable of great evil. To hear some evolutionists talk, humans are incapable of ev...

A member of the studio audience objected to my statement, We cannot even argue that evolution, over time, would favor desires that contrib...

A story that says that values are real-world entities that are open to scientific investigation has to say something about what values are a...

I am writing this series in response to requests for my opinion on Sam Harris' argument, two of which expressed the argument in terms of...

Author's Note: I originally wrote this posting using the phrase "human flourishing". In fact, Harris' specific phrase is ...

Author's Note: I originally wrote this posting using the phrase "human flourishing". In fact, Harris' specific phrase is ...

I have been asked by a member of the studio audience for my opinion of a talk that Sam Harris gave at TED (Technology, Education, and Design...

On the issue of moral resonsibility, I have argued that certain acts are contemptible if done in public, but not so if they are done in priv...

Here is a question from the studio audience: [Y]ou say that having a false belief isn't on its own a reason to condemn someone and I a...

A member of the studio audience said in a comment: I notice among some of my friends (and perhaps myself sometimes, though I don't lik...

It's a good thing all those priests molested all those children, because this sure helps atheists prove the inferiority of religion. A...

Here is an easy rhetorical trick. In order to get around the objection that the phrase 'under God' is the endorsement of some type...

In looking at the tests that Majority applied in determining that the placement of 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance counts as...

In response to my proposal for a new type of legal challenge to 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, a member of the studio audi...