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Freedom is Slavery to One’s Good Sense

The formula “Freedom is Slavery” seems Orwellian but a version of it is true. Freedom is not slavery to a regime, government bureaucrats, a master race, one’s work, or another person, but to good sense, to rationality. Why is this? … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020Tags Freedom, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy, Theology

Passive Voice in Fiction

The only advice I’ve heard about passive voice in fiction is: Don’t Use It. This is me offering more nuanced advice.

What is the Passive Voice?

Readers with a passion for grammar, second languages, or scientific writing will likely know … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020Tags Grammar, Writing

“Very” Is Not So Very Wrong

Mark Twain famously quipped that a writer who cannot think of a word to substitute for the word “very” should substitute “damn,” so as to form phrases like “damn beautiful” and “damn important.”  The writer’s editor will delete “damn” and … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 28, 2020September 28, 2020Tags Writing

I Am Beginning to Believe That Morality is Bunk

Before I discuss why the Argument from Moral Knowledge has pushed me in the direction of moral non-realism—the view that there are no objective more facts but only preferences, folkways, and the like—I want to discuss one of a family … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Morality, Philosophy

Gettier Cases and Moral Knowledge

              I’ve said that probabilistic arguments for God don’t do much to convince a committed atheist.  But the Argument from Moral Knowledge can be reformulated so that it is not merely probabilistic.  In other words, the standard atheist picture (humans … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 4, 2020August 12, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Buddhism, Philosophy

The Fine-Tuning Argument for God

Before I discuss the Argument from Moral Knowledge further it’s helpful to explain why I think the Fine-Tuning Argument for God isn’t so great an argument. Why the detour? I read other arguments for God that turn on our relationship … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Christianity, Islam

A Compelling Argument for God

I’ve already discussed how unconvincing I find William Lane Craig’s Moral Argument for God, so it is interesting that there is a cousin to this argument that I find compelling, the Argument from Moral Knowledge:

  1. We have knowledge
… Read the rest
Author andy dibblePosted on July 16, 2020July 18, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Philosophy, Religion

A Very Bad Argument for God

Some arguments for theism seem to either rest on a metaphysical confusion, like the Ontological Argument. Others might furnish evidence for God, such as the Cosmological Argument and the Argument From Design. But these arguments rarely convince non-theists, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on July 14, 2020August 4, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Philosophy, Religion

Examples of Backwards Causation

We tend to believe that all causation is forwards; a cause must temporally precede its effect. But there are some delightful examples of at least possible backwards causation. Even if all they do is demonstrate the ridiculousness of backwards causation, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020Tags Buddhism, Causation, Christianity, Philosophy

I Must Admit That Some People Believe in God

I am beginning to believe that some people actually believe in God. It’s astonishing, isn’t it? Somehow I gather I should have figured it out sooner.

I have some excuse. I was raised United Methodist, the Northern variety, not the … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on May 19, 2020December 15, 2021Tags Christianity, COVID-19, South Asia

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