Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is an isolation video interview for you, a la One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…
Alan Duval
Posted inPsychology, The Secular
Who Is God? Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here is some of my chapter in Jonathan MS Pearce’s (ed.) recent anthology of chapters from writers here at Patheos Nonreligious (Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century) [UK here]. My chapter is “Not Seeing God in Religion”. Obviously, we implore you to get the book… The previous part to this can be found here. In […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Philosophy, Psychology
Psychology and Moral Philosophy: An Integration
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last night, I gave a talk to the Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub with fellow ATP writer, Alan Duval. We had a great time and I can’t thank Pompey Skeptics enough (especially as they donated all proceeds to my appeal – totally brilliant of them). It was great to meet Phil Rimmer, a commenter here at ATP, who came […]
Posted inPsychology, The Secular
What Is God? What Is Religion?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here is some of the beginning to my chapter in Jonathan MS Pearce’s (ed.) recent anthology of chapters from writers here at Patheos Nonreligious (Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century) [UK here]. My chapter is “Not Seeing God in Religion”. Obviously, we implore you to get the book… What is a god? Broadly speaking, […]
Posted inEthics and Morality
Come to Portsmouth to See Me and Alan Duval Give a Talk on Morality
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s the dream team, there’s no doubt about it. Pearce and Duval, Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub, 10th January, morality. What more could you want for the new year? We are going to lay out our ideas about what the main theories of morality are, spending a short time refuting theistic claims (including looking at […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
Morality is about cooperation…
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been speaking for the past few weeks with Oliver Scott Brown, of the Oxford Anthropology department. He will shortly be publishing a paper based upon the recent work by his team. I will be getting an advance copy of the final draft, pre-press, and will be publishing an analysis, here. In the meantime, […]
Posted inPhilosophy
IQ: Using Race Divisively
Reading Time: 10 minutes Recently, ATP contributor Alan Duval skillfully debunked some claims concerning race and IQ made here by one of the more controversial commenters. This is why I don’t censor as much as others – it allows for free and open conversation whereby spurious claims are found out, or, indeed, found to be more robust. In the […]
Posted inGeneral, Politics, Psychology
A moral-political discontinuity
Reading Time: 5 minutes This post is the first in what will be another intermittent series, this time looking at politics more specifically, as opposed to, but starting off from, my intermittent series on my model of human values and morality. What beliefs unite Conservatives? I have been accused on a few occasions of not understanding what I oppose […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Politics, Psychology
Haidt’s Five Flavours as defined by Schwartz Values
Reading Time: 6 minutes In my previous post I suggested that it was Authority, and the exercising of Authority through demanding Obedience, primarily through punitive learning environments, that defined the difference between Libertarians, Liberals, and Conservatives, and particularly between naturally conservative individuals, and people nurtured (actually inculcated) into it. So let’s look at the Schwartz-Duval model with Haidt’s Five […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Politics, Psychology
The Natural Conservative vs. the Nurtured Conservative
Reading Time: 11 minutes Over the past several posts I have hinted at a very important distinction that must be made: the natural conservative versus the nurtured conservative. The natural conservative being an individual born with traits that see them tend towards Conservatism, the nurtured conservative being an individual raised in a punitive environment with diminished access to diverse […]