Camels With Hammers

The posts from blue-check-marked people grouped together above are just the latest manifestation of what happens when a movement baptizes its own abusiveness as righteous. As someone on the left,...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2019/01/i-stand-with-liberalism-against-the-critical-theory-domination-of-the-social-justice-movement/

Do you have any questions or ideas that you would like to run by a philosopher in a one-on-one conversation? I have a PhD in Philosophy and more than fifteen years’ teaching experience, both in...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2018/10/pick-my-brain/

From October 7-October 28, these are the topics my once weekly live, interactive, videoconference philosophy classes will be covering: October 7-28 Sundays at 9am-11am Eastern: Ethics, CONSEQUENT...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2018/09/study-stoic-ethics-or-hegels-political-philosophy-with-me-september-2018/

Should atheists engage in proselytization? I solicited questions about my philosophy of atheism on Facebook and that’s the topic of the first question: Do you think trying to “convert” peop...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2018/09/atheists-should-persuade-but-not-proselytize/

It’s easy to get impatient in a disagreement about ideas. In particular I sometimes get very impatient when someone says something that I have heard said many times before and am tired of rebut...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2018/05/making-arguments-less-tediously-repetitive-contentious-alienating-depressing-and-futile/

Having given my spoiler-free review of The Last Jedi, it’s time to break down the movie bit by bit into what I thought it was all about and what I liked and didn’t like. As I have encountere...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2017/12/religion-philosophy-last-jedi-nietzschean-take-spoilers-galore/

It's a Star Wars that takes genuine risks again and is driven by ideas rather than formulas for the first time since Lucas gave up the reins.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2017/12/last-jedi-spoiler-free-review/

You really know you've found the right spouse when you are living with her on a foreign continent in a country where you don't know the language and it's the most at home you've ever felt in your...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2017/12/our-wedding-video/

Explore philosophy with a former professor in live, personalized, interactive, small group, video-conference philosophy classes.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2017/12/study-philosophy-2018/

A Catholic apologist agrees with me that I had good reasons to leave Calvinism, but claims I didn't have good reasons to leave Christianity.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2017/07/considered-catholicism-sufficiently/