Serving up some cynicism about Buddhism
I’m deep enough in to the atheist whateversphere that I know minutia about how a fair number of prominent atheists have occasionally criticized Buddhism. I’ve written up a summary of the details here,...
View ArticleReligion and prostitution in South Korea
Last year, while I was still teaching at a public middle school in South Korea, Russell Blackford asked me a question in e-mail about religion in South Korea. I directed him to these posts, and also...
View ArticlePhilosophy of religion without apologetics?
Recently, in an exercise in thinking about things that are way too far off in the future to be really thinking about, I wondered: “If I do eventually get a Ph.D. in philosophy, and end up on the...
View ArticleI need to read more Derek Parfit
Brian Leiter links to a fascinating interview with Larissa MacFarquhar, who has among other things profiled philosopher Derek Parfit. I’ve become acquainted with Parfit’s ideas on personal identity...
View ArticleThoughts on religion after a year in Asia: separating “religion” from...
I have now spent a year of my life in Asia. I have seen the world’s largest solid-gold Buddha statue (so shinny, I failed to take a glare-free picture of it!): …as well as the largest religious...
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