Reading Time: 6 minutes In American prisons, solitary confinement refers to the practice of keeping people in concrete boxes the size of wheelchair-accessible bathroom stalls, 22 or more hours a day, 7 days a week, for months and years on end. But this practice may be coming to an end.
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Free Will: Just Deserts
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am really excited to have received in the post (from Bookshop.org, the competitor to Amazon that reimburses local bookshops with 30% of the value of the book) my friend Gregg Caruso’s book with Daniel Dennett. It’s a debate book over free will called Just Deserts [UK], and this idea of just deserts looks to be the […]
Posted inEthics and Morality
Do You Really Believe in a Binary Heaven and Hell?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I stole a loaf of bread. It was for my starving family. We had no other choice. I stole two loaves of bread. I just felt I had to. I’m a kleptomaniac. I stole 50 loaves of bread. I did it for the refugee camp just down the road. So many people starving. I stole a hundred loaves […]
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Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today, we look at Christian Accountabilibuddies, which are totally a real thing that many Christians do.
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Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Behavior: Caruso’s Public Health-Quarantine Model
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am reposting this because it has come up in conversations about free will recently and is thus pertinent again: The great Gregg Caruso has produced a fascinating looking paper which I can’t wait to read. I have often advocated the quarantine method in crime and punishment. This paper looks to detail that. Here is the […]
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Nordic Prisons, and a Visit from a Retired US Superintendant
Reading Time: < 1 minute Since were talking about crime and punishment the other day, I thought it would be worth sharing this. What are prisons for? Retribution? Rehabilitation? Deterrence? Justice?
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Quarantine Approach to Crime and Punishment
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a determinist who believes that libertarian free will is an illusion, the argument over whether we have libertarian free will or not is somewhat passé. The interesting debates happen over whether we have moral responsibility or not, what any ramifications of this would be, and what approaches we should have to crime and punishment. It […]
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Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Behavior: A Public Health-Quarantine Model
Reading Time: < 1 minute The great Gregg Caruso has produced a fascinating looking paper which I can’t wait to read. I have often advocated the quarantine method in crime and punishment. This paper looks to detail that. Here is the abstract: One of the most frequently voiced criticisms of free will skepticism is that it is unable to adequately deal […]
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The Quarantine Approach to Crime and Punishment
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a determinist who believes that free will is an illusion, the argument over whether we have libertarian free will or not is somewhat passé. The interesting debates happen over whether we have moral responsibility or not, what any ramifications of this would be, and what approaches we should have to crime and punishment.
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Absolving God from Hell
Reading Time: 9 minutes One day at the pool I saw a toddler almost march right off the edge of the pool deck and into the deep end. Her mother had called to her from across the deck, warning her in a very serious tone to STOP! RIGHT NOW! But the little girl didn’t stop (you have met a […]