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This is a really interesting documentary on the life of Martin Heidegger which centers for the most part around the issue of his Nazism. There are six parts worth watching through. They start with the video below: Your Thoughts?
Archive for October, 2009
Heidegger And Nazism
October 17th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Philosophy, Videos 
Tags: BBC, Biography, Germany, History, History of Philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Nazis, Nazism, World History 
No Comments »Amazing Chalkboard Animation
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I botched this post yesterday and didn’t realize it until now as I was without internet all afternoon and night yesterday. Instead of the main chalkboard animation I meant to post I accidentally reposted the Obama and kid footage. HERE now is the one of the most spectacular art projects I’ve ever seen. It’s directed [...]
On Trusting Scientists With Respect To Toxins
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday I posted up a video by C0nc0rdance, which received this comment from The Vicar, which I reposted in its own post. I then wrote C0nc0rdance to see if he might give us a reply and, graciously, he has: Life is not a risk-free environment. It is filled with trade-offs of one consequence for another. [...]
Posted in Science Tags: Autism, breast cancer, C0nc0rdance, causation, correlation, DDT, Pesticides, rBGH-contaminated milk, Toxins, Vaccination No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Mike Birbiglia On Hip Hop Animosity
October 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This killed me: Your Thoughts?
How Safe Are Our Doses?
October 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier this morning, I posted a new video from a scientist explaining that below certain thresholds of concentration various potential toxins are not dangerous to us. In reply, The Vicar makes some interesting points about the difficulties in controlling how the toxins we create will concentrate in practice, even if individual products in isolation have [...]
Posted in Science, Videos Tags: Bayer, Chemistry, Monsanto, Pesicides, Skepticism, Stevia, Toxins No Comments »“I Hate Religion Because…”
October 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Blaghag’s endlessly interesting adventures as an atheist activist college student continue. This week, Purdue’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship put up a blackboard with the words “I Hate Religion Because…” and invited Blaghag’s “Society of Non-Theists” to express their views on it. I am wary of the word “hate” being involved here and not sure that atheists [...]
Little Boy Asks Obama “Why Do People Hate You?”
October 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Presidents have the darnedest things said to them: I love his response. He uses the opportunity as a chance to model both empathetic understanding for his enemies and an unflappably positive, resilient spirit amidst disdain. Your Thoughts?
A Scientist On Relative Effects Of Different Toxic Exposures
October 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really interesting look at important issues and exposing some pseudoscience and overly fearful environmentalism. Here is the description of the videos from the YouTube information bar: Chemical toxins are a real health risk. So is radiation. But should we be extrapolating the effects of certain toxins at high doses down to a low-level exposure? [...]
Posted in Biology, Science, Skepticism, Videos Tags: alarmism, Chemistry, Environmentalism, fluoride, Hiroshima, hormesis, LD50, linear non-threshold, Medicine, mercury, Minimata, Pseudoscience, Public Health, Radiation, squalene, Squaline, thimerosal, toxicology, vaccine No Comments »Happy Birthday Friedrich Nietzsche!
October 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke You would have been 165 today. It is a shame you didn’t make it past 55 and even a greater shame that your mind didn’t make it past 44. There was still so much to be clarified, developed, and newly discovered.
Is Debate Between Believers And Non-Believers Inevitably Futile?
October 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Z from It’s The Thought That Counts gets discouraged: I’ve been having these long, philosophical conversations with some of my Christian friends about exactly what their religion means to them (I was happy to find that these friends were open to such discussions!) There’s no way that people’s moral beliefs are actually formed by Christianity’s [...]
Posted in Atheism, Featured, Religion Tags: Arguments, Debate, Discussing Religion, Persuasion 9 Comments »For The Sake Of The Children
October 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From The Associated Press: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. Neither [...]
Posted in Barack Obama Tags: Derek Jeter, Halle Berry, Jason Kidd, Mariah Carey, Race Issues, Slash, Soledad O'Brien No Comments »Catholic Mother For Her Son’s Right To Marry
October 15th, 2009 Daniel Fincke US News Reports: The conservative Catholic group CatholicVoteAction.org today is calling for the ad to come down. Here’s part of a statement the group just sent out: CatholicVoteAction.org President Brian Burch said, “For decades gay and lesbian groups have attacked the Catholic Church for refusing to accept their skewed views on human sexuality and marriage. [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, News, News Discussion, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Videos Tags: Ads, Jim Burroway, Maine, No on 1 No Comments »The Simpsons Take On Creationism
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Unreasonable Faith has a 12+ minute clip of a few year old episode. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Pop Culture, Religion and Science, TV, Videos Tags: The Simpsons No Comments »Classical Music On The Accordian
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke His name is Aleksandr Hrustevich and his skills are unbelievable, he’s like a one man orchestra: His YouTube channel is here.
Daily Hilarity: Marlin Hill’s Awesome Obama Impression
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This guy is so, so, so much better than the lame SNL one we seem stuck with. His Obama is as good as Carvey’s Bush, Sr. and Fey’s Palin.
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody Tags: Marlin Hill No Comments »The Peaceful Atheist Reconsiders Religion
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke It will be most interesting to see where Lily, who lost her faith at Wheaton College, will wind up in the future. And then in the future after that. Her interesting thoughts upon finishing Barbara King’s Evolving God are here. Each paragraph is too interesting and her thoughts only make sense in context, so I [...]
Posted in Atheism, Religion, Religious Secularism, Secularism Tags: Barbara King, Evolving God, Peaceful Atheist No Comments »Nasty, Brutish, And Short
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yeah, this kid will stop being funny soon as he grows up enough to have the slightest modicum of power over anybody or anything. Your Thoughts?
Atheism, Albuquerque, And “Weird Al” Yankovic
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Recently Hemant Mehta did an excellent job of mobilizing criticism of Albuquerque city councilman Don Harris for creating campaign literature that attacked his opponent for, among other things, being an atheist and contributing to a “Charles Darwin” scholarship. Harris, to his credit apologized for trying to exploit his opponents views on religion in the campaign, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Civil Liberties, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, News, News Discussion, Parody, Political Secularism, Religious Rights, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: "That's Your Horoscope For Today", "Weird Al" Yankovic, Albuquerque, Albuquerque City Council Race, Don Harris 3 Comments »Gore Vidal On America, Obama, Homosexuality, and Timothy McVeigh
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari has an interview with Gore Vidal, in which Vidal expresses some wild opinions. First Hari’s rundown of Vidal’s one of a kind biography: At 83, he has lived through one third of the lifespan of the United States. If anyone incarnates the American century that has ended, it is him. He was America’s [...]
Posted in Barack Obama, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Politics Tags: Al Gore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gaddafi, Gore Vidal, Jack Kerouac, Johann Hari, John F. Kennedy, Oklahoma City Bombing, Posse Comitatus Act of 1876, Reactionary Right Wing Politics, Tennessee Williams, Timothy McVeigh, Truman Capote No Comments »Philosophical Ethics: A Possible Kantian Formula For Determining The Permissibility Of Self-Defense
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Autonomy, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Torture Tags: Categorical Imperative, Christine Korsgaar, Counter-Coercion, Immanuel Kant, Kant's Murderer At the Door Example, Lies For Good Ends, Lying, Permissible Lying, Right To Lie, Self-Defense, White Lies No Comments »Deepity
October 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Last week I highlighted both a portion of Jerry Coyne’s report from AAI and independently Andrew Sullivan’s nasty retort to another portion of that same post. But I never quoted the really fun and on target coinage of Daniel Dennett which got so far under Sullivan’s skin: Dan Dennett talked about interviews with active priests [...]
Posted in Atheism, Daniel Dennett, Religion Tags: Apophatic, Deepity, Jerry Coyne, Karen Armstrong, Religious Language No Comments »Is Reason My God 4: On Reason As An Authority
October 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Even though this post is “part 4″ of a reply to the same commentator, it can be understood without reading prior installments. If you would like to catch up with prior installments nonetheless, here are parts 1, 2, and 3. In reply to this post, Grant writes: Appealing to the authority of reason is the [...]
Posted in Authority, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Evidence, Faith, Featured, God, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Philosophy Tags: Reason No Comments »Is Reason My “God” 3: What It Means To Be A Rational Being
October 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Late last night Grant challenged my insistence that reason is not my “god” in whom I have faith. I have already replied to his attempt to lump in reliance upon science with reliance upon religion as equivalent strategies for avoiding facing the fact of uncertainty and inexplicability. In this post I consider the next portion [...]
Posted in Ethics, Featured, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Teleology, Virtues Tags: Capacity, Excellence, Irrationality, Moral Perfectionism, Norms, Rational Being, Rationality, Reason No Comments »Is Reason My “God” 2: On Authority, Uncertainty, and Inexplicability
October 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’ve been remiss lately in replying to interesting reader challenges. A backlog is growing of remarks I intend to address. So I decided, in order to get back in the swing of things to quickly reply to this new one I just got. Grant writes, Seems there are people looking for an authority to believe [...]
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