By: Jason|08 October, 2011|Categories: Ethics|Tags: Divine Command Theory . Glenn Pettigrove . God . John Hare . Mark Murphy . metaethics . theism
Earlier this year, we were involved in hosting a panel discussion on the relationship between religion and morality. The video is now up on YouTube: Moderated by Dr Matthew Flannagan, the panel included Prof John Hare from Yale Divinity School, Prof Mark Murphy from Georgetown University, and Dr Glenn Pettigrove from the University of Auckland. Each speaker addressed a different…
Read more »By: Jason|06 August, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: God . metaethics . morality
Uncommon Descent has posted a great response to Jerry Coyne’s recent opinion piece at USA Today, defending the supernatural foundations of morality. [HT: MandM]
Read more »By: Jason|20 July, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Adam Omelianchuk . metaethics . moral epistemology . Sam Harris . science
Adam Omelianchuk has a nice review of Sam Harris’ latest book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Moral Values.
Read more »By: Jason|14 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: Divine Command Theory . metaethics . morality . Sam Harris . william lane craig
There has been some good analysis of the recent debate between William Lane Craig and Sam Harris and I thought it might be useful to collect some of that commentary here into one post.
Read more »By: Jason|08 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: Divine Command Theory . metaethics . morality . Sam Harris . william lane craig
Just a reminder that today’s debate between William Lane Craig and Sam Harris at the University of Notre Dame will be streamed live at 7pm local time (11am for those of us in New Zealand). You will be able to watch the feed here. UPDATE: Brian Auten at Apologetics315 has posted the audio from the debate. UPDATE: The video of…
Read more »By: Jason|16 August, 2010|Categories: Events|Tags: auckland . auckland university . metaethics . moral facts . moral objectivism . neuroscience . new atheism . public events . relativism . Sam Harris
Glenn Peoples will be speaking at Auckland Uni this September.
Read more »By: Jason|07 August, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: debate . God . goodness of God . Hell . Hermeneutics . literalism . Matt Flannagan . metaethics . Ray Bradley
Audio from the recent debate at Auckland University between atheist and former Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Dr Bradley, and blogger and Christian philosopher, Matt Flannagan.
Read more »By: Jason|31 May, 2010|Categories: Media . Video|Tags: Dallas Willard . empirical knowledge . knowledge . metaethics . moral knowledge . morality . Skepticism
In this video from a lecture delivered last month, philosopher Dallas Willard explores whether the moral life can be the subject of knowledge in an age that is skeptical about non-empirical claims.
Read more »By: Jason|21 December, 2009|Categories: Ethics|Tags: atheism . christopher hitchens . douglas wilson . metaethics . morality . new atheism . subjectivism
Douglas Wilson has written a guest article over at On Faith, discussing atheism, morality and whether we need God to be good.
Read more »Dinesh D’Souza has written an interesting article in Christianity Today about Peter Singer and his honest embrace of the ethical implications of atheism.
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