Ethics
But why need a Darwinist care about fairness in hiring?
Jerry Coyne and the contradictions of Darwinian morality
Fancy that! An edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species with a worldview guide
Dawkins raises an issue without intending to: Can one “outgrow” God without “outgrowing” morality?
John Horgan on Jeffrey Epstein and the decadence of science
If apes are people, we aren’t (but that’s the point, right?)
Paper claiming kids’ religiosity decreased altruism retracted
Can the history of medicine help social sciences out of their dark ages?
Historian Richard Weikart on how Darwinism eroded the value of human life
Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins
A serious look at whether we can be good without God
Logic & First Principles, 20: What is law?
A good first step to understanding the ongoing failure of our civilisation is to contrast the common, positive law view of law summarised by Wikipedia (as a handy point of reference): Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. It has been defined both as “the Science of Justice” and “the Art of Justice”. Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions Read More ›
Logic & First Principles, 19: Are we part of a Boltzmann brain grand delusion world (or the like)?
In looking at time (no. 18) we saw how a suggested form of multiverse is one in which sub-cosmi are speculated — there is no observational base, this is philosophy dressed up in a lab coat — to pop up as fluctuations, exhibiting their own “big bang” events and timelines: However, it was not as simple as that. Wikipedia, speaking against known inclinations, summarised: a Boltzmann brain is a self-aware entity that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium [–> the predominant, statistically overwhelming group of accessible micro-states for a relevant entity in statistical thermodynamics]. For example, in a homogeneous Newtonian soup, theoretically by sheer chance all the atoms could bounce off and Read More ›