Let’s begin this article by visualizing something together. A conversation I don’t doubt that at least a few of us will remember watching on a computer a few years ago. “Michael, do you know what secularism humanism is?” asks an annoyed-looking Oscar Martinez. Imagine his surprise when Michael Scott, a man not exactly known for […]
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Read More Skeptic Ever since the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume outlined the “Is-Ought” problem—that we cannot derive an ought from an is, or we cannot determine the way something ought to be morally based on the way things are in nature (the classic example being slavery—because ants practice slavery that doesn’t make it natural and
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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 15, Issue 4, from 2002. In our previous article on this subject, we outlined the path model, and how it highlights the major features of paranormal belief and experience. However, this type of linear modelling is ill-suited to test the notion that people face a basic choice
