I'm going to talk about this book next week, but you need to know about it now, because it's the perfect mother's day gift for ...

I was all agog about the dress yesterday, and then I made the mistake of reading Practical Ethics News . It turns out the royal wedding rais...

Here's a picture of a group getting together for a party at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.  Are they ... a fellowship of Christians?  Tea ...

My TPM essay about parenthood and meaning is online.   No time to discuss right now, but come back Saturday!

I've been reading Richard Joyce's book The Myth of Morality, which is certainly interesting and very well written.  The main idea is...

What exactly are we doing when we create new people?  Are we "doing good," adding something positive to the world, fulfilling the...

  I've now had a chance to listen to the Craig vs. Harris debate, thanks to this audio version.  Both sides, I would say, pander to t...

How to, HERE . Really funny, and what great graphics!  (My family will appreciate the "safe sentence" suggestion.) (via Jeremy ...

Did you watch this debate ?  I've been so busy I've only had a chance to listen to about 10 minutes of it--a bit of William Lane Cra...

View more videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com . What can I say?

Recently I've made two visits to a skilled nursing facility--a place that's part "rehab" and part "nursing home....

What a great cover!  More here and here .

All over the blogosphere, everyone seems to be fascinated with animal cams. Here's one I just saw at Feminist Philosophers. Streaming...

The last issue of Philosophy Now had a nice forum about the death of morality, with articles supporting relativism (Jesse Prinz, David Wong...

Just finished... The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore , by Benjamin Hale.  Ape makes journey from animality to humanity.  So funny, so incredib...

Here's Ronald Lindsay, president of the Center for Inquiry, arguing that the organization shouldn't include the spread of atheism a...

In the NYT science section yesterday , John Tierney had a good article about X-Phi and free will.  Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe studied wh...

Jerry Coyne in a recent post: I love it that Ruse, like Jeremy Stangroom and Jean Kazez, characterizes our philosophical naivité and so-c...

Spring break....and I find myself in central Texas, trying to convince my family members of a certain theory I have about beauty.  Or at le...

All sorts of little things alter our trajectories through life.  There's an accident blocking the main road, so you get to Starbucks 10 ...

Come back Saturday to talk about "The Adjustment Bureau," a fun, interesting movie about free will, angels, predestination, and su...

The website "On the Human" has an excerpt on killing animals from the new third edition of Peter Singer's book Practical Ethic...

My angel/slug poll was not take by vast numbers of people, but still there's a trend.  The lexical view wins.  All the angels before any...

Yesterday my animal rights class discussed the "Till-Kill Argument"--an argument due to animal scientist Steven Davis (made famou...