Christians vs. Atheists: What Are We Actually Arguing About?
I’ve made the point before that really, Christians and Atheists are only arguing over one single thing: whether the ground of all being has thoughts and feelings or not. Otherwise atheists already agree there is a ground of all being, and that everything that...Distinguishing Awareness, Intelligence, and Consciousness
There is a rash lately of sensationalist claims of proving consciousness in everything from fungus to plants and even bacteria. All bullshit. But not of the usual woo variety. This time the bullshit is semantic. At least, at the origin of these ideas in actual...Three Recommendations in Godless Epistemology
Godists have their own bogus epistemologies, designed to rationalize believing in gods. But rational people use only godless epistemologies, which aren’t rigged to favor any conclusion. I have long advocated Bayesian Epistemology as the correct logic for knowing...Three Unexpected Recommendations in Philosophy
As always, I get a commission on anything you buy on Amazon after clicking any link on my website, here or elsewhere. Heck, I get a commission on everything in your cart when you check out within 24 hours after following a link from my site, even if you don’t...Is God Needed for “Information” and “Laws”?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about “where the laws of physics come from.” Of course I’ve already covered this from the angle of “where do all the physical constants come from” in The Utter Destruction of the Fine...The Other Problem with Nothing (and Kalam Shazam!)
In May philosopher Alex Malpass will debate William Lane Craig on the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God, and in preparation he is running a weekly series at Thoughtology on every argument there is for or against every premise of the KCA. It’s looking like a...Recommendations in the Philosophy of History
I teach online correspondence courses every month in philosophy and history, and I highly recommend you check them out. It’s a great way to get in some guided self-learning, with a whole month of being able to pick my brain about the subject for a very...The Ontology of Moral Facts
Fifteen years ago I was asked to give a lecture to Christian high school students on “the ontology of morality,” which I did using clips from movies and television shows to illustrate the physical instantiation of moral facts in interacting human systems....On Being Childish vs. Paying Attention: Buffoons vs. Bayes, Aristotle Edition
A childish Philosophical Muser tried claiming there are “errors” in this month’s article on The Historicity of Aristotle. And boy, if only you saw my DMs from this bozo. You will already get an idea from the article I just linked. But his DMs are...If Even Hobbits Could Build Advanced Civilizations, So Could Women: How Being Bad at Reasoning Sustains Antifeminist Mythologies
I dare the manosphere to mock Tolkien! “Hobbits are stupid and should be erased from Lord of the Rings because they’re too weak to build things, so obviously they’d have actually all starved to death or something.” Hobbits are way too woke to...How Pseudo-Rationality Grounds Conservative Worldviews: My Debatecon Followup
This month I was invited to two debates at Debatecon 6 in Nashville hosted by Modern Day Debate: the existence of God with Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Christian Nationalism vs. Secular Humanism with Andrew Wilson. It was okay. But I have thoughts....Now I’m Also Debating God with Inspiring Philosophy at the Modern Day DebateCon!
In addition to debating which worldview is better for society with Andrew Wilson on Sunday November 16 (see my previous announcement) I am now also scheduled to debate whether God exists at all with Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy the previous day, Saturday the...How All Math Is Real
Long ago I explained why All Godless Universes Are Mathematical and how physicalism already explains The Ontology of Logic and how numbers are not the same thing as quantities but only codewords that refer to them in How Can Morals Be Both Invented and True? And...New Publication: Objective Moral Facts Exist in All Possible Universes
I have a new peer-reviewed publication in philosophy: “Objective Moral Facts Exist in All Possible Universes,” Religions 16.8 (2025). This consolidates my previous peer-reviewed work on metaethics (“Moral Facts Naturally Exist (and Science Could Find...The Carrier-Wilson Debate in Nashville: Christianity Or Secular Humanism, Which Is Best for Society?
I will be debating Andrew Wilson, live on stage, in Nashville, Tennessee, this November 16. Yes, that Andrew Wilson. I expect it will be a dumpster fire like it was with Sargon, and as experienced by Dillahunty last year with Wilson. But I’ll stick around....Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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Richard Carrier is the author of many books and numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism and humanism, and the origins of Christianity and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He is also a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and historical methods.
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