Philosophy Bites Daily

Spinoza on Miracles

Spinoza thought that miracles reveal human ignorance. Read more...

Immorality Leads to Unbelief - allegedly

A Christian apologist turns his attention to that immoral bunch, the atheists. What a shower. But I'm with Thomas Nagel not wanting God to exist. Read more...

The Belief Instinct

So God is a scratch on our psychological lens. How irritating. Read more...

Charles Taylor on Religion, Secularism and Community

Charles Taylor thinks that there's more to life than the instrumentally rational perspective. Read more...

Sam Harris on Sacrifice, Intellectual Honesty, and Faith

Sam Harris examines the types of arguments levelled against his book Letter to a Christian Nation, including modern version's of Pascal's Wager. Read more...

Wittgenstein's Influence on the Coen Brothers

Ethan Cohen wrote his Princeton senior thesis on Wittgenstein. Is that why the idea of simple decency plays such a role in their films (whether Wittgenstein himself achieved simple decency in his life is another matter). Read more...

Immortality By Scientific Means

Sidgwick, Lenin, H.G. Wells and Kurzweil - a mixed bunch - but all interested in immortality by scientific means. John Gray tells us that science enlarges what we can do, but can't (so won't) reprieve us from being what we are. Very probably true, but how does he know? Read more...

Is Philosophy of Religion A Fraud?

Keith Parsons decided to stop teaching philosophy of religion on the grounds that the case for theism is a fraud - and created quite a brouhaha in the process (to be consistent there are probably a few other fields of philosophy that he should decline to lecture in too). Read more...