I suspected immediately after being presented with ATE that it was a very sketchy way of thinking about this stuff.

For several years since deconstructing my former belief that Gender and Sex were intrinsically linked, I've thought the concept of gender was pretty pointless. None of what I cared about when it comes to my identity seemed in any connected anyone else's notion of Manhood.

The salt in YouTube comments sections never ceases to amaze me. @lanceindependent.bsky.social

I can definitely tell I no longer live in civilized lands anymore. This is the "best" case of beer I could find within 20 minutes of my house.

I'm very suspicious of claims of "objective value" seemings, and that's beyond my general suspicion of seeming in general. What I hear about these seemings is something like "it seems like X is valuable", conjoined with "it seems like X would be valuable even if nobody thought it was".

A conservative evangelical coworker of mine who I discuss religion and politics with recently told me that Romans is his "top of the mountain" theology. So I decided to re-read it in it's entirety. Yall, conservative evangelicals are so fucking full of shit it's literally painful to think about.

Watching Huemer misrepresent anti-realism thru equivocation is not my idea of a fun time. Yet I'm probably gonna do it any way.

This was a hell of a read and does a billion times better job of explaining the "what the hell are you even on about?" feeling I get every time I listen to panpsychists talk about stuff.

Riffing off an idea from Phil Halper in his recent discussion with Stephen Meyer, I'd like to propose a slightly different dillema to pose against proponents of Fine Tuning arguments. Are bodies required for being a Moral Agent?

Almost didn't watch this because I thought it would be some silly stuff. Turns out to be some silly stuff, And the answers to his most recent AMA including my question.

New one from @lanceindependent.bsky.social is up and well worth the read. While his focus is on normativity, I think all this translates really well to the sort of "objective value" talk common in apologetics. I wish more philosophers would seriously engage with Lance's ideas.

I think far too many Fine Tuning critics(FTC) are too hasty in abandoning the Necessity horn of the trilemma. Doing a bit of theory comparison, what the design hypothesis is saying is that there is something more foundational than the universe that accounts for why the universe is the way it is...

New favorite way to defang Fine Tuning and PsychoPhysical Harmony arguments just dropped. @stanpatton.bsky.social is awesome.

If you ever catch me not laughing at this meme, it's either not me or I'm in extreme distress.

Yall ever learn a new term and then have to spend 3 days falling down the rabbit hole of what it means and the related terms, whilst simultaneously questioning your whole identity? Well, I did.

I keep seeing appeals to this idea of Awesome Theistic Evidence (generally the idea of we found something like the text of John 3:16 written in the stars), and that since something in that family would be good evidence for theism, so too is the evidence for fine tuning.

Can someone who watches AAA explain why Kaiser Americano is wearing black and gold with a giant V now instead of the red white and blue?

It occurred to me last night that his cognitive decline has gotten so pronounced that if he wasn't President of the US, making fun of Trump would be extremely offensive these days. How the fuck is this man president?

In the space of less than 6 months, my remote first job turned into first 50% in office, and now "were pushing for 100% rto". Guess it's time to look for a new job, yall ain't paying enough for me to be in the office every day for no/made-up reasons.

Fucking hell conservatives are fucking weird ass people yo.

The discourse around this has been driving me mad. People on all sides keep making the same mistake, so I thought it was worth addressing in detail.

100% ready for my MAGA coworkers to be insufferable today.

I'm so confused as to how MAGA thinks this would work given their insane refusal to do *fucking anything* when it comes to gun control. Like, seriously? How would they fucking know?

I get the sentiment here, but I feel like the thing Goff describes is so far from how "religion" has been understood for the last 5 to 10 centuries that calling it that makes it less appealing to the people who would otherwise agree with him, and less appealing to people that want Religion.

I used to write quite a lot about politics, since 2016 I basically can't cool my seething rage long enough to put anything down worth sharing. I hope that changes some day.

I always wonder if the people disagreeing with Rauser's use of "atheist fundamentalist" are people that match the definition he has for the term and are mad at being called what they see as a derogatory term, 1/

Found Family is the best family, and poppa Fodder does ours proud day in and day out.

Huntsville Pride parade was awesome.

Holy crap, did not realize I needed this conversation in my life, but now that its an option I'm unreasonably excited. I hope @lanceindependent.bsky.social and @randalrauser.bsky.social can make this happen.

@rocketcitypride.bsky.social Is there going to be a parade this year?

Finished up a round in the game I'm playing on my pc, went to smoke a cigarette. Came back inside, pc is now off and won't turn on. Im the only person in the house with a desktop too, so no spare pc in the house to test parts from to isolate. FML

I don't understand what anyone takes philisophical zombie type arguments seriously. At worst it seems pretty trivial to just reject the move from epistemic to metaphysical possibility. But even at best you just modus tollens and pretend nothing happened.

Being an adult is weird. My sister just called me because she was driving and bored. Seems normal enough... Except she felt the need to tell me she was on the way to a booty call. Like, obviously good for her, but why fucking tell me that?

Enterprise was a better prequel than discovery (and probably SNW but I haven't seen it so idk) Enterprise actually felt like it really was set in the past of the timeline, where discovery feels like the rule of cool ruined their ability to fit into the timeline properly.

This is probably the closest I'll ever get to understanding what panpsychism actually is beyond the rejection of physicalism and dualism. And yet, I can't help but feel like this metaphor makes way more sense on physicalism than panpsychism.

Agile Rituals days are the worst, like basically all of them.

This but Scaled Agile PI Planning.

I suspect that when off the record, he would. But Craig's role in the larger discourse has effectively become the reference point for the confidence many Christians have in the intellectual validity of their beliefs. An admission of fallibillity would undermine his capacity to fill that role.

Can anyone recommend some good reading on how panpsychism is supposed to work? I'm familiar with the argument, but what remains completly unclear is what the content is aside from the core definition that mind is fundamental. #philsky @philipgoff.bsky.social @emersongreen.bsky.social

I take one of Materialism's commitments in possible world semantics to be something like: Any 2 worlds with identical physical facts, are identical in every other way. Regarding philosophical zombies, this would mean that the only way to think there is some possible world...

Stealing memes off substack for content because life is chaos but I don't want to have nothing to post.

For a long time I've suspected that most arguments for theism are basically just one argument cached out in different terms. Well now I've figured out how to not only formalize that idea, but also how respond to it. Enter the Fundamentality Theory of Apologetics.

It’s ridiculous for philosophers to constantly go around saying this or that view involves “biting the bullet.” It’s as if they think everyone does or must agree on which views are “intuitively plausible” and that if you hold a view to the contrary, you are biting a bullet.

YA'LL. I just figured out that even after 7 years, I still have access to most of my university research library. There's a bunch of papers I've wanted to read for a while but couldn't justify paying for that I can read now as long as I go thru my school's site. This is a game changer.

It's finally finished. This represents by far the most extensive writing I've ever done on anything. Not only is it 8X larger than the any papers I wrote for my undergrad, it's nearly long than all of those papers combined. As I've said before, I highly recommend this book. Though I will warn ...

Tonight I finished reading Why by @philipgoff.bsky.social. Despite disagreeing with nearly every major conclusion he reaches in the first six chapters, I found myself nodding along with his final chapter. I can't say I'm any closer to understanding why he thinks the Limited Good God is the... 1/