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Mark Maharaj The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thompson died on November 20, 2020. She was 91. Known for her work on a variety of issues in normative ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics, and metaphysics, Thompson was professor emerita at MIT. She was the originator of the “Violinist” thought experiment used to demonstrate the concept of bodily autonomy…
Keith Douglas Last month, I asked about a bizarre argument that talks about its own validity and soundness. This creates, to speak sloppily, a paradoxical situation (i.e., one can derive a contradiction). Some think that one can then say: “Paradoxical, not an argument, moving on.” This is too quick, and falls afoul of one attempted…
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen If you want to murder someone with an illegitimate excuse, then a decent manner in which to do so is the excuse of the State, as such, whether secular-authoritarian or theocratic. Navid Afkari was executed. Afkari was a wrestler accused of murder who had “international appeals for him to be spared.” In…
Saida Hameed, Zara Key, Susanna McIntyre, Christine Shellska, Ali Rizvi, Harris Sultan, Apostate Prophet, Seth Andrews, Leo Igwe are only some of the speakers on this year’s panel. Protecting Blasphemers II is CFIC’s second annual panel discussion highlighting the most recent blasphemy cases of the year. We aim to discover the areas where the global secular…