1. Introduction Welcome to the first post series of my blog, in which we shall be discussing arguments against the existence of God. Anyone who has encountered any discussion of atheism in recent years—whether on places like reddit, YouTube, or organisations like the Atheist Experience—will be familiar with a certain trend in defining "atheism": Atheism … Continue reading On Arguing for Atheism (part 0)
Month: February 2019
Atheism and Nihilism
I have often been asked, by Christians, how I—as an atheist—answer to the nihilist. Well, not so much “asked”. Nihilism—the view that life has no meaning, that nothing has value—is posed as a challenge to the atheist. I have been called dishonest for being a non-nihilist atheist! This is, to a certain degree, bemusing to me. Nihilism … Continue reading Atheism and Nihilism
Free Will, Libertarianism and Compatibilism
1. Introduction Much of the debate about free will is driven by competing notions of what free will is, and I will spend most of this post discussing various such notions. So it is important to establish a theory-neutral definition of what the words ‘free will’ denote. Following the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy we shall define: … Continue reading Free Will, Libertarianism and Compatibilism
Known and Strange Things 