Atheist Ethicist

A moral statement has three functions, which it carries out simultaneously. (1) To report an objective fact, that people generally have ma...

I would like to see somebody run on the Republican ticket for President of the United States as a Capitalist. In the first debates, each c...

If people intend to see the Bernie Sanders revolution continue, I would like those within the movement to make the effort to advocate for th...

To call something valuable is to say that it has other properties that provide reasons for behaving in certain ways with respect to it. (Sc...

Sometimes I feel like an atheist pursuing a theology degree. Such an atheist would be surrounded by people who are certain that a god exis...

I would like to recommend a couple of podcasts . . . Or, more precisely, a pod-caster by the name of Mike Duncan. His podcasts are, " T...

Many defenders of Donald Trump say that they are tired of "political correctness". What many actually mean by this is that they ...

What does it matter what philosophers think? Here you are, living your life. You're concerned about your health and the safety of othe...

If our intrinsic desires themselves are subject to rational requirements, then there must be rational requirements beyond [means-ends ratio...

Mackie argues that we cannot have any type of "objective value" without having some sort of non-natural property, which doesn'...

I am going to be going through Michael Smith's article, "Beyond the Error Theory," where Smith examined four responses to J.L....

Reason and deliberation may tell you that you have a need to change that flat tire on the car tonight. However, you can reason and deliberat...

With Presidential candidates supporting the use of torture, it is worthwhile to to take another look at what types of people these are, and ...