WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 173 – THE POINT ZERO ZERO ONE PERCENT My grandmother was a Bolshevik, and my father a socialist. I came to adulthood during the turbulent Sixties, and for two decades I’ve been surrounded… Read More ›
Why My Colleagues Are Idiots
First to the Tribe
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 172 – FIRST TO THE TRIBE By a belief being true I mean its corresponding to some actual state of affairs. (What it is for a network of synapses in the brain,… Read More ›
Creationism
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 174 – CREATIONISM My colleagues are idiots because they seem to think it unnecessary to tell us to what positions their various labels are attached. We’ve already seen this, back in Rant… Read More ›
Confirmation Bias
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 171 – CONFIRMATION BIAS Okay, this is now the 314th time I’ll have said it. I take no interest, one way or the other, in any of the The-Sky-is-Falling-No-it’s-Not claims and counterclaims… Read More ›
If You Wanna Be Serious, Lighten Up
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 170 – IF YOU WANNA BE SERIOUS, LIGHTEN UP Some conceptions of God are incoherent. On pain of irrationality, those can be rejected ab initio. Others are coherent but they violate Occam’s Razor…. Read More ›
My Colleagues’ Residual Theism
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 169 – MY COLLEAGUES’ RESIDUAL THEISM Look! I realize it takes time to adjust. But it’s been over a century and a half since you were offered the Darwinian turn. It’s time… Read More ›
Is it Philosophy?
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 168 – IS IT PHILOSOPHY? Here’s what I write in the course outline for my Intros, “What is philosophy? is itself a philosophical question, best answered, if at all, only after having… Read More ›
Tropes
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 166 – TROPES Who hasn’t memorized pretty much every word of The Princess Bride? After Fezzik keeps misusing the word ‘inconceivable’, Inigo finally says to him, “I do not think that word… Read More ›
Anthropogenesis
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 164 – ANTHROPOGENESIS Suppose the world came into being five minutes ago, precisely as it was five minutes ago, with all those pseudo-history books on those shelves and all those pseudo-memories in… Read More ›
In Defense of Shilling
WHY MY COLLEAGUES ARE IDIOTS – Rant # 163 – IN DEFENSE OF SHILLING For the 312th time – yes, I decided to start counting – I have no interest whatsoever in weighing in on the global warming debate. Nor,… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 