Tag: Tim Bayne

Spaceship flies near the amazing blue planet earth, view from the window. Travel and tourists in space, concept. Beautiful space view of the Earth with cloud formation. Hotel in space

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 10, 2025

Categorized
Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy

Tagged
Earth's significance, Earthrise photo, Pale Blue Dot photo, Tim Bayne}

A Challenge to Pale Blue Dot-ology: Earth Is Significant

_{The “pale blue dot lost in space” view of Earth seems to brand science as an intellectual property of materialist atheism. And evidence isn’t what keeps it going} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 10, 2025

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Cosmology, Extraterrestrial life, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy}

Perhaps more of us should start calling out these assumptions that arise not from observing nature but from the intellectual commitments of those who make them.

Daniel Dennett Made Atheism Easy to Understand

_{In the process, he somehow also made it less believable} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 21, 2025

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Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Science}

Dennett may be best remembered for inadvertently helping to reduce the popularity of atheism

Philosopher: Why Brain Science Does Not Eliminate Free Will

_{Tim Bayne looks at what we can logically deduce from the famous Libet experiments} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 20, 2024

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Free will, Philosophy of Mind}

The logical argument for free will coincides with recent neuroscience research findings.