I Am Now an Amazon Associate in Ten Countries!

I now have Amazon Affiliate status outside the U.S.! If you usually buy things on a foreign Amazon site, then when you click an Amazon link on my site (any link in any article or on any of my recommendations pages), it should redirect to your nation’s Amazon...

A Primer on Actually Doing Your Own Research

Here I shall assemble some advice I now realize I always take for granted, but that I find even well-meaning people sometimes don’t know, yet will definitely benefit from. The idiom “Doing Your Own Research” has become a joke largely because the...

A Quick Brief on Identity Theory

Just for utility’s sake, I will organize some of my past comments here on identity theory. By that here I mean one’s ontological model of “identity” (not sociocultural identity): that which makes one thing different from another, or unique...

My Monthly Recommendation: Ayer and Polanyi

With the loss of a family member our income took a hit. My Patreon supporters ensure I will never employ paywalls or intrusive third party ads here, and I always benefit most from more Patreon patrons. And there are other ways to tip me or support my work (like buying...

Bernardo Kastrup’s Attempt to Bootstrap Idealism

It astonishes me that anyone can still get articles through peer review defending the dead philosophy of Idealism. As I documented before in my series testing the standards in academic philosophy, the field’s reliability is not that great. Which is inexcusable....

Michael Alter’s Exemplary Review of Undesigned Coincidences

The Argument from Undesigned Coincidences is a naive Christian apologetic invented in the 19th century but revived recently by apologist Lydia McGrew, which ignores all historical knowledge of the redaction history of the Gospels to argue that, instead of the authors...

Touch, All the Way Down: Qualia as Computational Discrimination

Today I am going to offer a naturalist theory of qualia—the particulars of “what it is like” of conscious experience, like the redness of red or the floweriness of a flower’s scent or the twanginess of a guitar, or even what love or fear, or...

Theism, Naturalism, and Explanatory Power

Last week I published an eristic analysis of an exchange of videos between Rationality Rules and Capturing Christianity, on Which Is ‘Rational’: Theism or Atheism? This time I will analyze a previous Capturing Christianity video, “Why Theism Best...

Which Is ‘Rational’: Theism or Atheism?

Of course, atheism. But in any debate with the deluded, they will claim it’s the other way around. Flat Earthers will claim the rest of us are deluded, that believing in a spherical Earth is irrational, and so on. So someone not already up to speed might not be...

Did the Rapture Already Happen!? No. Nor Will It Ever.

“Truly I tell you, this generation shall certainly not pass away until all these things have happened,” we’re told the Lord said, “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with...

Is This Possible!? Giving an Amazon Sales Event a Try

I don’t imagine this is possible, but I was curious enough to try: if I can generate $1500 in sales through my Amazon Associates link, they will give me a “bonus” of $45. A whole forty-five dollars! In addition to my usual commissions on those sales...