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by Notung of Skeptic Ink

Too long, didn’t read. That’s what the kids say. Books. tl;dr. 700-word blog posts. tl;dr. Email. tl;dr. We may bemoan the decline of literary culture in the United States, or worry about the ever-decreasing attention spans of our children, but we also need to pay much closer attention to what is taking the place of …

by Richard Dawkins Those intrepid enough to venture onto my Twitter feed will have noticed a new feeding frenzy yesterday (20th August 2014), for which I apologise. The issue is the morality of abortion following screening for Down syndrome. Down Syndrome, or Trisomy 21, results from the presence of an extra copy (or partial copy) …

by Sue Blackmore   I’m still shaken by yesterday’s lecture and its aftermath. Oxford in the 21st century was, I’d fondly assumed, the epitome of somewhere...

by Richard Dawkins   I met him only once. It was June 3rd 2006, at the Academy of Achievement dinner in Los Angeles.

by Richard Dawkins   Let me add just one afterthought to my article Are there emotional no-go areas where logic dare not show its face?

It is already known that there is a great need for more women in the STEM communities. It now seems there is an overall need in the STEM communities. How do you think we can solve this undermanned crisis;  how can we engage younger students in science and encourage them into careers in STEM? The …

by Robert Johnson   In modern ethics this question is asked more often in the context of animal ethics than anywhere else. Our inability to share the perceptions of any non-human animal means that our activities involving those animals must be subject to moral debate. We ask, for instance, whether there are ways we might …

by Richard Dawkins   Are there kingdoms of emotion where logic is taboo, dare not show its face, zones where reason is too intimidated to speak? Moral philosophers make full use of the technique of thought experiment. In a hospital there are four dying men. Each could be saved by a transplant of a different …

John W. Loftus calls for an end to the Philosophy of Religion in this brilliant article. Here’s the followup article in which John responds to Dr. Jaco Gericke’s objections to ending the Philosophy of Religion. If you’re interested in a Secular Studies program, then check out Phil Zuckerman and Pitzer’s program.

This week we’d like your opinion on this: How much of holding onto religion comes from familial or other traditional practice and not from “true” belief in the doctrine? Explain why on the page, and let’s talk about it! The best suggestion will get a copy of An Appetite for Wonder, by Richard Dawkins. Winner: …

By Rob Johnson   The term ‘moral science’ is increasingly used in the work of rationalist thinkers. Traditionally in the realm of religion, our ever-increasing secularism has allowed for science advocates to attempt to theorise morality into science – or at least to theorise it into the world of the rational.   This idea is prominent …