Buddhism Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think - NYTimes.com Argues that incomprehensible gnomic sayings are a Western stereotype of what Eastern philosophy is.
(tags: meditation buddhism philosophy paradox) Inspiring Philosophy and the Laws of Logic: Part 1 - UseOfReason What could apologists be talking about when they speak of “the laws of logic”? ( ( Read more... )

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War of words breaks out among Jehovah's Witnesses - Home News, UK - The Independent For some reason, a bunch of newspapers in the UK have recently noticed that the Jehovas Witnesses are a cult. Nice to see so many people in the comments relating their stories of getting out.
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Richard Feynman on doubt, uncertainty ( Read more... )

I've not posted for a while, mostly because I've been busy discussing elsewhere. Here's where:
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In her series on Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Valerie Tarico reports on the work of neurologist Robert Burton. Burton argues that "Despite how certainty feels, it is neither a conscious choice nor even a thought process. Certainty and similar states of knowing what we know arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, ( Read more... )

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I recently had a random encounter with a proponent of Christian presuppositionalism, over on the Premier Christian Radio forums. Presuppositionalism is a pretty odd position: not content with pointing out the evidence in favour of Christianity, as most Christians do, the presuppositionalist apparently reckons that unless you presuppose the ( Read more... )