Monthly Archives July 2008

Quick question about free will

I haven’t read much of the modern literature on the libertarian view of freedom of the will, but I’m wondering what they say about children. It seems like compatibilists and hard determinists can easily account for most people’s intuition that children are less morally responsible for their actions than adults. The causal pathway to their [...]

Crackerjack reporting

For the record, if all newspaper writing were more like Justin George’s writing, I would start subscribing to the newspaper again.

Other people’s weather

I had great plans for coming back to the States after five months abroad. I wanted to respond to emails and other contacts that had stacked up from my month traipsing through Europe, my house was a blank canvas waiting to be repainted, and I could finally stop thinking about museums, new friends, and nightlife [...]

Blog Police

The blog police just informed me that if I don’t start posting more, they’re going to issue me a citation. I don’t think they’re serious about taking down the blog if I haven’t posted for two months, but I don’t want to take that chance. I’ve seen these guys in action and they’re brutal. They’ll [...]