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Back from San Francisco: A Belated Report

February 3rd, 2012 1 Comment

MandM has been quite of late, this is because Madeleine and I have been very busy.  With moving house in the midst of Christmas and New Years and Madeleine working part-time in a law firm and so on, we’ve had little time to blog. We are now set up, to some extent, and so this [...]

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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday

July 6th, 2011 3 Comments

The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts [...]

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Easy Dupes: Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari “Gay Girl in Damascus”

July 3rd, 2011 7 Comments

Narratives are powerful.  They control what we identify as significant data or facts, how we empirically apprehend the data, what interpretations and shades of significance we place upon the evidence, and the conclusions drawn.  Absolute objectivity is impossible.  Only relative neutrality and disinterestedness are possible.  The cut of our jib determines the winds we catch [...]

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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday

May 29th, 2011 2 Comments

The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts [...]

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The Top 10 Beretta Podcast Episodes

April 24th, 2011 3 Comments

I have recently acquired a great interest in listening to philosophy of religion podcasts. My favourite podcast is the Beretta Podcast over at Say Hello to my Little Friend. My interest in the Beretta-cast came about after I clicked on a link on Facebook to a podcast on the notorious Zeitgeist ‘documentary’ and discovered it was created by [...]

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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday

March 2nd, 2011 3 Comments

The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts [...]

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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – Thursday

January 27th, 2011 7 Comments

The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts [...]

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Alexander Pruss on Scientific Rigour

January 19th, 2011 165 Comments

Given the debate raging on JT’s Progressive Enslavement: The Seductions of Scientism I thought it timely to share this comment left on The Prosblogion by Baylor University Associate Professor of Philosophy and blogger Alexander Pruss, “Given the pessimistic meta-induction, or given the fact that we know that at least one of the two central theories in [...]

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MandM and Friends UPDATED

January 3rd, 2011 16 Comments

Recently we placed an advertisement on Facebook for contributors to MandM. We were looking for people with some training in analytic philosophy who are careful, articulate and interesting writers who can contribute to MandM in a complementary style to ours. Those we have chosen to add to our team should bring some variety to our [...]

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William Lane Craig, Original Sin and Original Guilt

December 31st, 2010 74 Comments

A lot of people are up in arms at the moment about a paragraph in William Lane Craig’s answer to Question 193 “Overweening Ignorance.” Facebook, blogs, twitter and message boards are abuzz with Christians angrily attacking Craig with the charge that this paragraph shows he either does not hold to the doctrine of original sin or [...]

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