There’s been some recent discussion over at our forum on what constitutes a good argument. Incorporating some criticisms from some YouTube atheists as well some criticisms from another forum user, one of our members submitted this as a question to William Lane Craig. Lo and behold, he actually answered it! The following is the original [...]
Can one be a Cartesian dualist and consistently hold that abortion is immoral? It seems to me that such a position, though tenable, makes arguing against abortion significantly harder. This is because according to the Cartesian dualist, I am not a body, but an immaterial soul that has a body. My body is something [...]
Tags: Abortion, applied ethics, dualism
Lately, I haven’t had time to do any blogging, mainly because recently I enrolled in Biola University’s distance certificate in apologetics problem. I’m nearly finished (Module 2/3), and I’ll have a review of the program up once I’m done. As for now, here’s a short video featuring Paul Copan on the problem of evil. Copan [...]
Tags: Paul Copan, problem of evil
[Redated post] Philosophers use the words possible, impossible, necessary, actual, and contingent very differently as opposed to how they are used in popular circles. In philosophy, these terms are referred to as modalities and are understood in terms of possible worlds. A possible world is simply a way things could have been. They’re a fictional heuristic [...]
Tags: Modal logic, possible worlds
(HT: Midas Vuik). Sharon Elizabeth Berry, a Havard graduate student in philosophy, has written a short essay which argues that it would in fact be immoral to withhold life-support from the violinist in Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous paper. The violinist thought experiment, for those who are unaware, is considered to be one of the key [...]
Tags: Abortion, Pro-choice, pro-life, thomson, violinist
