{"id":3895,"date":"2010-03-30T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:00:54","slug":"repost-julian-sanchez-wins-for-all-time-grasping-reality-with-our-minions-our-machines-and-our-mental-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/repost-julian-sanchez-wins-for-all-time-grasping-reality-with-our-minions-our-machines-and-our-mental-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Julian Sanchez Wins for All Time… – Grasping Reality with Our Minions, Our Machines, and Our Mental Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a state of flux right now. It really irking me.<\/h3>\n
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Julian Sanchez Wins for All Time…<\/h3>\n
\nI bow before my master:<\/p>\n

Grasping Reality With Our Gelatinous Meatsacks<\/a>: Will Wilkinson is a little snarky about it, but basically right: Freddie DeBoer\u2019s post on naturalism and the skeptical conclusions that follow from it is fuzzy philosophy. (The Sam Harris TED talk he\u2019s riffing on is worse, but that\u2019s another story.)\u00a0 Regular readers will recognize this as one of my minor obsessions, an instance of theorizing \u201cin the shadow of God.\u201d I\u2019ve applied the phrase in the past to describe worries that a naturalistic worldview\u2014lacking space for deities or radically autonomous immaterial selves\u2014creates all sorts of dire problems for morality or meaning. In most cases, I argue, the apparent problem actually stems from some hand-me-down conceptual furniture left over from the theological worldview.\u00a0 And usually the way to untangle the knot is to make a Euthyphro move.\u00a0 That is, you might worry that morality is in trouble without God until you grok that morality with God isn\u2019t in any better shape: The deity turns out to be a black box that rather looks like it might do some heavy lifting on a tough philosophical problem, but on closer inspection it turns out not to make any difference…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I’m in a state of flux right now. It really irking me. Julian Sanchez Wins for All Time… I bow before my master: Grasping Reality With Our Gelatinous Meatsacks: Will Wilkinson is a little snarky about it, but basically right: Freddie DeBoer\u2019s post on naturalism and the skeptical conclusions that follow from it is fuzzy … <\/p>\n

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