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Utilitarianism and Reflective Equilibrium

In 'Why I Am Not a Utilitarian', Michael Huemer objects that "there are so many counter-examples, and the intuitions about these examples are strong and widespread, it’s hard to see how utilitari...

Posted: Saturday, January 22, 2022

Majority rule is not democracy

What is democracy? Pundits have been writing recently that democracy is majority rule, but that is wrong, dangerously wrong.       Related StoriesThe morality of esp...

Posted: Saturday, January 22, 2022

Kant’s Moral Philosophy

[Revised entry by Robert Johnson and Adam Cureton on January 21, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) argued that the supreme principle of morality is a principle o...

Posted: Friday, January 21, 2022

Emergence and Incremental Probability

In 'Emergence and Incremental Impact', I argued (contra Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong) that emergent properties do nothing to undermine the basic case for individual impact: they're just another kind...

Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The morality of espionage: do we have a moral duty to spy?

Why spy? . . . For as long as rogues become leaders, we shall spy. For as long as there are bullies and liars and madmen in the world, we shall spy. For as long as nations compete, and politicians dec...

Posted: Monday, January 17, 2022

Cicero

[New Entry by Raphael Woolf on January 14, 2022.] Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BCE) is best known to posterity as a prominent statesman and orator in the tumultuous period of the late Roman republ...

Posted: Friday, January 14, 2022

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Dr. Robert McKim
  • on Religious Diversity
  • Professor of Religion and Professor of Philosophy
  • Focuses on Philosophy of Religion
  • Ph.D. Yale
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Dr. Alvin Plantinga
  • on Where the Conflict Really Lies
  • Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (UND)
  • Focuses on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
  • Ph.D. Yale
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  • on faith as a cognitive sickness
  • Teaches Philosophy at Portland State University (Oregon)
  • Focuses on atheism and critical thinking
  • Has a passion for teaching in prisons
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