Well, I have successfull transferred all of my previous blogging (back to 2006, I believe) to this location. I’m in the process of connecting with my Twitter and Facebook accounts… I’m hoping this will all look very professional in the near future. 🙂
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I Was Wrong About Global Warming!
Well, off by a few years. I understood that Solar Cycle 24 had just peaked, and that we were already entering Solar Cycle 25, predicted to be one of the weakest on record. Actually, 24 peaks in 2013, and 25 begins in 2019. However, the peak of Solar Cycle 24 is still predicted to be …
Why Argument from Authority is Invalid
On February 2nd, renowned physicist Michio Kaku (I have several of his books) appeared on the CBS morning show to discuss the relationship of the recent snowstorms to Global Warming. Dr. Kaku’s argument (basically) was that warmer air caused greater evaporation in the Gulf of Mexico, which increased the amount of water vapor in the …
My Paper in a Nutshell…
Some time ago, I was unfortunate enough to read Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, a research paper from the University of California, Berkeley, in which a group of liberal professors congratulate themselves on how cool liberals are and how rotten conservatives, while demonstrating absolutely no understanding of the usage of the terms (Adolph Hitler, …
The Rationality of Atheism
Talk of bringing atheism into a religious discussion forum brought up the position that atheism “would be the voice of reason waiting to hear what you believe and why.” Disregarding the fact that superiority complexes seldom provide the voice of reason, let us examine some points: In the presence of positive evidence, the reasonable course …
Second Philosophy of Technology Essay
I decided to truly challenge myself with this writing assignment and find the most wrong-headed concept it this essay. It was tough competition: I could easily have gone with his personification of machines (that unconscious lumps of metal have “points-of-view” and “function as virtual members of society”), or the closely related confusion he has between …
Thoughts on Burn a Koran Day and Libertarianism
Recently on Facebook, I was made aware of a group which will be hosting “Burn a Koran Day” on September 11, 2010. Many people on Facebook who happily refer to themselves as Libertarians (or Conservatives, which in America should be practically identical) were shocked and outraged that I refused to condemn this group. Angry statements …
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Philosophy of Technology
Below is my first essay for PHIL401, Philosophy of Technology. It is a rebuttal to another essay, and I thought it turned out well enough to share: According to Winston, the most important reasons for the philosophical investigation of science and technology are that a) science and technology are socially constructed; the biases of any …
Questions from Facebook
Below are two questions which came up in a recent Facebook conversation, and my responses. Let me know what you think: “I don’t see the connection between hunting down international terrorist criminals and funding wars and keeping armies everywhere on the globe.” The connection is this: we are not confronting “terrorist criminals,” we are confronting …
Free-Market Health Care?
Faced with an overwhelmingly deadly heart condition, a 9-year-old boy in Georgia has raised $12,000.00 towards his own medical expenses. Essentially, the boy wrote a short story and sold a limited-edition run of autographed copies on E-bay. So Barack Obama and the Democrat-led Congress have passed a gigantic, fascist law mandating that all Americans purchase …
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