For each comment added to this post, the author’s friend will give a dollar to Oxfam. It’s good that the author’s friend is going to give money to charity, but I don’t see why the amount should be related to the number of comments added to a blog post.  Doesn’t it make more sense to…

Submissions have been requested for the next Philosophers’ Carnival.  Should I submit any of the posts I’ve made thus far?  If so, which one should I submit? 

Having spent an embarrassingly high number of hours playing Xbox Live, and having asked an embarrassingly high number of Xbox Live players about their political affiliations, I think I am now qualified to speculate that a very large percentage of American Xbox Live players are Republicans, support the war, and voted for Bush if they…

In my previous post on this topic, it was noted that there are ways in which libertarianism neglects pressing concerns about human well-being.  We saw that this fact forms the basis of a powerful criticism of libertarianism.  The goal of this series of posts is to supplement libertarianism in such a way that it can…

As I understand it, the libertarian view on government, at least in its most extreme form, is that persons have an absolute right to dispose of themselves and the fruits of their labor however they please — and that no other considerations, however compelling they may seem, will ever justifying a government’s violating that right. …

Warning: No point of any significance is made in the following post.

In Russ Shafer-Landau’s Moral Realism: A Defence, SL divides views about the "reality" of the moral domain into three types.  Here, I’ll ignore one of those types (moral nihilism), and will focus on the contrast SL provides between moral constructivism and moral realism.

As Egarwaen points out in comments, there are numerous problems with putting together a reasonable voter test.  We obviously would not want to test people on questions for which there is no consensus on the answer.  But politics is such that almost every question which is not extremely basic is contentious.  As a result, it’s…

Our everyday methods of evaluating arguments make both foundationalist and coherentist chains of inference appear to be unsound.  In this post I’ll say a few things about the possible implications of this fact.

Those of you who’ve noticed my rambling comments at Left2Right or Majikthise probably expected a post on this topic would appear here eventually.  There’s very little new here, so I’ll put most of this post below the fold.  Click on if you dare…