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Watch Matt on the GCSB Bill on Shine TV 1 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
On 30 July 2013 Matt was interviewed on Shine TV about the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment (“GCSB”) Bill. The video is here:
Marquis and Ideal Desires 25 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
In response to my post Peter Singer Human Dignity and Infanticide, Ben Jury offers some astute comments: “I agree with you, that Peter Singer does not motivate his account of ideal desires. However, ...
Published in Philo: Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 11 Jul 2013 | 08:45 am
Jeffery Jay Lowder has informed me that my article “Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong” was published in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of ...
Hear Matt @ the Stayin’ Alive 2013 Pro Life Internship Program in Wellington 26 Jun 2013 | 11:36 am
This blog’s Matt will join Brendan Malone, and other speakers, to talk at the 2013 Pro Life Internship Program in Kapiti, Wellington which is running from 1-6 July 2013. Matt’s talks will be: Tuesda...
Is a Divine Command Theory Pscyopathic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part II 25 Jun 2013 | 04:04 pm
In my last post, Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part One, I criticised Sam Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. In this post I want to turn to his second line of criticism of a Div...
Why Defamatory Speech is not Free Speech 22 Jun 2013 | 03:50 pm
The following is a representation of the standard argument as to why a remedy requiring the removal of defamatory speech from a publication is not a violation of the right to free speech: The right ...
Auckland Conference: Science and Faith with Dr C John Collins 20 Jun 2013 | 11:05 am
Thinking Matters have a couple of conferences coming up in July with Dr C John Collins: Much of Western culture assumes that science and faith are foes, that faith and scientific naiveté go hand in ha...
Auckland Conference: Ancient Truth for Modern Times with Dr C John Collins 18 Jun 2013 | 11:02 am
Thinking Matters have a couple of conferences coming up in July with Dr C John Collins: What is the Bible? What authority if any does the Bible have in the 21st Century? How should the Bible shape th...
Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part One 24 May 2013 | 02:28 am
In a previous post, Divine Commands and Pyschopathic Tendancies, I said I would look in more detail at Sam Harris’ charge that Divine Command Theories (“DCT”) of meta-ethics are psychopathic. In this,...
Advance: Exploring Tough Questions About Christianity 23 Apr 2013 | 12:39 pm
This blog’s Matthew Flannagan is scheduled to speak alongside Dr Glenn Peoples, Dr Chris Tucker, Sean du Toit and Jacqui Lloyd at this Friday’s one day Auckland conference Advance: Exploring Tough Que...
