Atheist Ethicist

I know it is a bit late, but I thought I would weigh in with a comment about Ricky Gervais' statement at the end of the Golden Globe cer...

One of the objections I have often raised against free market systems has been highlight the fiction that it allocates resources towards its...

I recently argued that government regulatory agencies will almost. Inevitably become yet another tool that the regulated industry will use. ...

Regulatory agencies will quite often become a tool of the very people they regulate. They will use the agency to add another source of reven...

PZ Myers has posted a response to his response to a criticism of new atheists. (See: Stephen Asma Responds ) The response contains the f...

When it comes to balancing the federal budget, one of the possibilities that commonly come up is abolishing the NEA. This is a nice, easy ...

Yesterday, I was treated to a headline in the Washington Post that said that National Science Test Scores Disappoint " I am somewhat ...

In that last post I objected to the moral crime of spending other people's money without their consent ($14 trillion in debt passed to f...

As an ethicist, I would have a hard time defending the practice of living off of somebody else's bank account without their consent whil...

I need to get back into the real world. I have been wasting much of my time lately with trivial frivolities - empty wasting of time and op...

So, when does Dr. Andrew Wakefield - and the lawyers who funded him - get arrested and put on trial? WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) --...

Hello. It's been a while. I got caught up with other projects and, while I was working on them, did not have much time to come here an...

Pakistan — More than 500 Muslim scholars are praising the man suspected of killing a Pakistani governor because the politician opposed blasp...

This is a series that I am writing describing the history of the Apollo moon landings - 50 years ago. The Apollo project provides an excelle...

Laura, the Red Headed Skeptic, wrote a post On Truth that I would like to comment on. My first objection comes from her disclaimer: I f...

Luke Muehlhauser has uploaded another episode of the podcast, Morality in the Real World Morality in the Real World 03: Alph and Betty on ...

I continue to see atheists attempt to answer the question, "How do we motivate people to do good and to not do evil without appealing t...

Luke has posted Episode 2 of our joint podcast, Morality in the Real World on his site. You can get to it at: Morality in the Real World ...

I have quite frequently complained about the bigotry of atheist writers who make "derogatory overgeneralizations" about religion -...

Luke Muehlhauser, over at Common Sense Atheism and I are creating a series of podcasts to describe Desirism (a.k.a. Desire Utilitarianism) ...