Complete List of Posts by Topic
The following list contains all posts that I have published on this blog, arranged by topic. Note that each post is contained in exactly one category. Also note that the numbered list of ‘key writings’ above is stand-alone – all the posts contained therein are also listed below.
Naturalism and Atheism
- A Theory of Reductive Naturalism: The Metaphysical Foundations of Non-belief
- A Naturalistic Worldview: Talk Notes
- Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Burden of Proof
- Everyone is Right – Why Debating Religion is a Fool’s Game
- Seeking God versus Seeking Truth
- Faith and Reason: A Place for Both
- The Failures of New Atheism
Christianity and General Apologetics
- Five Major Problems with William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Why I am still not a Christian: My Unanswered Objections
- Weighing up the Arguments For and Against Christianity
- Why Am I still not a Christian?: A Letter to my Christian Friends
- The Question of Christianity: A Personal Manifesto
- The Probability that God Exists is 10%
- The Wisdom of Christianity and the Foolishness of Atheism: What Atheists Consistently get Wrong
- What Christians Disagree About
- How can Christians be so Certain?: Why Subjective Evidence isn’t Evidence
- A Case for Christianity – A Critique
- Should I Worship an Evil God?
- The Myth of Christian Humility
- The Myth of Christian Humility: A Commentary
- Christian Evangelism – Ministry to the Gullible?
- What Lennox Got Wrong: A Refutation of his Key Arguments
- Reflections on ‘Why I am not an Atheist’
The Bible and the Resurrection
- The Resurrection of Jesus: Explaining the Historical Facts Debate Notes
- The Resurrection Appearances: A Naturalistic Explanation? Executive Summary
- Explaining the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus
- Can a Scientist believe the Resurrection’ by John Lennox: A Critique
- If Jesus was Raised, Could the Bible be False?
- Review of John Dickson’s ‘A Doubter’s Guide to the Bible’
Morality and Metaethics
- A Case for Ethical Naturalism
- How to get an Ought from an Is
- The Problem of Evil: Still A Strong Argument for Atheism
- Are there Moral Facts or Duties without God?
- Justifying Morality Without God
- A Meaning to Life without God?
- ‘The Absurdity of Life without God’ – William Lane Craig’s Non-Argument
Epistemology
- Levels of Scepticism: How Even Rational People have Sceptical Blind Spots
- A Critique of Crude Positivism: Why the Epistemology of Dawkins and Hawking Fails
- Why Arguments are (almost) Never Convincing: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Belief Change
- The Problem of Peer Disagreement
- The Limits of Knowledge: An Outline of Applied Epistemology
- Is Conciliationism Self-defeating?
- On Evidence and Truth: Why Reason is our only Hope
- When NOT to Update Your Beliefs
- Some Thoughts on Science
Mormonism
Effective Altruism
- The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved
- A Critical Review of ‘The Precipice’: A Reassessment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics
- Effective Altruism is an Ideology, not (just) a Question
- A Critique of Superintelligence
- The Ethical Imperative of Effective Altruism
- Responding to a Marxist Critique of Effective Altruism
- Refuting Criticisms of Utilitarianism and Effective Altruism
- The Case Against Effective Altruism
- Happiness and the Good Life
History
- Lessons from the Fall of Rome
- 70 Years On: Why D-Day still Matters
- Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of VE Day: The Price of Victory
- Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The Price of a Mile: Reflections on the Folly of the Great War
- Anzac Day: Misconceptions and the Real Meaning of Commemoration
- Islamic Contributions to Scholarship
Economics and Politics
- We’re All Liberals Now: The Hegemony of Liberalism
- Why Die for the Donbass? Thoughts on the Invasion of Ukraine
- Why Income Inequality Doesn’t Matter
- Why Climate Change won’t be Quite as Disastrous as you Thought
- The Concept of ‘Freedom of Speech’
- A Vision for a Secular Australia
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James Fodor 