So, emotive language is now apparently something we should not be using when defending Science, Philosophy, proper Theology and so forth. Or, at least, this is what the people at ‘The Briefing Room’ seem to think. In this post, on Atheism, Dawkins is criticised for being emotive and all the atheistic commentators seem to have [...]
You will become like us
July 12th, 2007 2 Comments
Tags: Atheism · Commentary
The Old Oil Chestnut
June 11th, 2007 2 Comments
I seem to be delivering content to this blog at the moment and I have the horrible feeling that you (on meagre readership) might think this to be a) a good thing and b) a sign of further good things to come. I had hoped to dissuade you of this today with a filler post [...]
Tags: Commentary · Explanations · Institutional Analysis
Brief Political Commentary
May 3rd, 2007 No Comments
The recent debate in New Zealand in re legalised child abuse (sucks to be you if you think the repeal of Section 59 was about anything else) has ended with a cross-party compromise. Seeing that I’m currently very interested in Social Epistemology (and that one of the ways you can characterise the constitution of a [...]
Tags: Commentary
