Value-free atheism

Earlier today, Massimo Pigliucci, writing for his blog Rationally Speaking, noted that atheism is “not a philosophy” and “we should stop pretending that it is.” Further elaborating, he wrote, When atheists are concerned that their position is perceived as being only negative, without any positive message, they shouldn’t really be worried, but should rather bite […]

A philosophy lesson for Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, and everyone else

Blogger Stephanie Zvan recently published a blog post containing a great deal of philosophical confusion following blogger PZ Myers’ philosophical confusion. In this post — a response to Myers and Zvan’s post — I discuss what an argument is and talk about thought experiments with hope to dispel all of this confusion. I previously commented on atheist […]

PZ Myers: ‘Abortion reduces to simple question.’ Really?

PZ Myers In a recent blog post, biologist PZ Myers argued that philosophical and scientific arguments concerning abortion are irrelevant because the matter of abortion reduces to “a simple question.” I argue, as someone who identifies as pro-choice with a background in philosophy, that the matter of abortion isn’t as simple as PZ makes it […]