Encourage:
-
Recent Posts
-
Past President of The Christian Apologetics Alliance
Apologetics Daily
my goodreads profile
Categories
- Apologetics
- Apologetics Toolbox
- Epistemology
- Ethics & Metaethics
- God Particle
- Groothuis' 'Christian Apologetics'
- Keller's Reason for God
- Ontological Argument
- Predestination
- Richard Dawkins
- Sam Harris
- Stephen Law's evil god argument
- Testimonies
- Tim McGrew
- Undesigned Coincidences
- William Lane Craig
- Youth Apologetics
- Bible Narrative Project
- Carnival
- Examiner.com Articles
- Freelancing Tips and Tricks
- Harmonic Triads
- Inventions
- Memories
- Neighboring
- News
- Poetry and Fiction
- Random
- Reviews and Interviews
- Apologetics
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: Is-Ought Fallacy
The Moral Argument
Update 1/30: Expanded on some things The Moral Argument I don’t like the traditional version of this argument that argues from the moral law to a moral law-giver: Traditional Argument from Morality Premise 1: There is an objective moral law. Premise … Continue reading
Poll: What grounds objective moral truth?
Choose one option from this poll: God wills the good in accordance with his loving nature. The good is a construct of God, man or nature. Nothing, there are only constructs which do not obligate. In other words: What grounds … Continue reading
The Humean-Platonic tripartite (Ought-Is-Belief) theory of (moral) knowledge
The Humean-Platonic tripartite (Ought-Is-Belief) theory of (moral) knowledge It is possible to blend Hume’s is-ought distinction (1) in Ethics with Plato’s justified-true-belief theory of knowledge. Simply put, whatever sort of beliefs one is talking about, including moral beliefs, they must be … Continue reading
Groothuis’ "Christian Apologetics" ch.6: Truth Defined and Defended
The apologetics study group LOVES this quote from Groothuis’ Christian Apologetics: “We may be entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts.” p. 124 It’s actually a variant of a quote commonly attributed to Daniel Patrick … Continue reading
This week’s Christian Carnival is…
…here. I host it at my new on-line portfolio blog :) I am not including my own submission this time, because I am still chewing on an idea for an article that talks about the difference between Hume’s is-ought distinction, which … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Is-Ought Fallacy
Leave a comment
Philosophers’ Carnival #138
Welcome again to Philosophers’ Carnival, “which aims to showcase the best philosophical posts from a wide range of weblogs. We invite submissions from bloggers and readers, and collate the submitted posts into one big round-up (or ‘carnival’) every three weeks, … Continue reading
What being is described by a without-God good?
From a discussion in a Veritas forum: If you ask: To what does a real ought correspond? …or… What does a real ought describe? …you will notice that science will have as easy a time answering that as answering: What … Continue reading
Is-ought discussion with WLC
I had a discussion with Dr. Craig in a note I posted on Facebook, but I am deleting Facebook Sunday and the discussion was never resolved, so I am moving it to here. Hopefully he can reply here or in … Continue reading
"God and Evolution" reading log from Facebook
Some months back, Wintery Knight generously (though with the ulterior motive of converting me from BioLogos to I.D.) sent me “God and Evolution” edited by Jay Richards. I determined to finish it by the end of the year and did … Continue reading
Answering Stephen Law’s evil god argument
This is a reply to Stephen Law’s “evil god” argument he gave in his debate with William Lane Craig in October. I first posted a version of it in a comment to my blog post here, in reply to Jason … Continue reading
Ichthus77 