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Is Abortion Murder? 27 May 2010 | 01:24 am
Tim McGregor asked me the following question: “I started pondering about the issue of abortion and I thought maybe a worked example how desirism might help us make moral decisions would be greatly ai...
Letter to a Lapsed Pagan III 28 Apr 2010 | 12:13 am
Hi Tim You asked for a short description of desirism. I will give you three. The first two are aimed at school level albeit said slightly more technically and compactly than one would say to school k...
Quote of the Day: Tolkien versus Rand 27 Apr 2010 | 10:01 pm
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelie...
Letter to a Lapsed Pagan II 23 Apr 2010 | 07:00 pm
[See Letters to a Lapsed Pagan - Index for full list of our correspondence] Hi Tim I think a better way to move forward is for me, in this second letter to you, is to directly answer your "WTF is de...
The Abuse of Social Forces 22 Apr 2010 | 07:00 pm
A common and entirely misleading misunderstanding over desirism is over the desire to torture and similar desires. We will use the desire to torture as an exemplar here. The desire to torture is a ne...
Motivational Externalism and Reasons Internalism 21 Apr 2010 | 07:47 pm
In a debate in the comments of a previous post, Richard Wein thinks my position is inconsistent over internalism and externalism. This post is an answer to Richard Wein to explain why it is consistent...
WTF is Morality? 20 Apr 2010 | 07:00 pm
This is my first Letter to Tim McGregor and is in reply to his first letter to me WTF is desirism? I am keeping an updated index of our letters in Letters to a Lapsed Pagan – Index. I suggest you read...
Letters to a Lapsed Pagan - Index 19 Apr 2010 | 11:51 pm
Fellow Brighton based sceptics Tim McGregor - founder of the Brighton branch of Skeptics in the Pub (why did they use the USA spelling for a UK originated idea?) - and myself, have agreed to discuss d...
Letters to a Lapsed Pagan - Index 19 Apr 2010 | 07:51 pm
Fellow Brighton based sceptics Tim McGregor - founder of the Brighton branch of Skeptics in the Pub (why did they use the USA spelling for a UK originated idea?) - and myself, have agreed to discuss d...
Rational and Irrational Justifications 16 Apr 2010 | 07:00 pm
This is the third and final reply to Kip’s response to my original post to him Why Consider all Desires that exist? (My first reply was Why Consider others when you don’t need to? and my second reply ...
