On September 7th, I addressed several common questions about my views on ethics in my (under-read) post  The Contexts, Objective Hierarchies, and Spectra of Goods and Bads (Or “Why Murder Is Bad”). On September 8th, I complained when I saw Republican Candidates Take A Strong Stand Against Inoculating Girls Against Cancer-Causing Virus. That same day I [...]

There is a growing number of great comments on my previous posts which I want to address in blog posts, there are a handful of posts for which I have promised follow ups which are overdue, and there are a number of other new topics roaming around in my head which I want to get [...]

Or that’s the way I like to see our servers crashing constantly yesterday because of our insane amounts of traffic. I apologize for the inconvenience to Camels With Hammers readers and appreciate any persistent refreshing efforts you may have made to read the site. We may be down again, on purpose, for reasons of upgrading [...]

So, you know that awesome rush you have when you discover a great new band or TV show or film that no one (or at least no one you know) seems to realize exists or is so awesome? And you’re sure that it deserves a wider audience and then one day it becomes mega-popular and [...]

Freethought Blogs got a beautiful redesign this morning! We look less squeezed and cluttered to my eyes and you can efficiently and quickly see where to find both the Camels With Hammers and the overall Freethought Blogs Recent Posts, Comments, Archives all in two multi-tab boxes relatively high up on the page on the right side. [...]

Forgive me, long time readers (or, more precisely, readers from last week), because I’m about to mostly repeat myself in order to introduce myself to the many people who will be coming here for the first time today.  You can entertain yourselves in the meantime by perusing the other newly launched freethought blogs on the network [...]

So, if you typed in http://camelswithhammers.com today or clicked on any links to our posts, you were automatically sent here to our new home.  Welcome! Last night we finally brought all the archives from the old Camels With Hammers here to the new Freethought Blogs Camels With Hammers, so now you can click through page [...]

As part of introducing myself here at Freethought Blogs, I decided to repost below a post I wrote in February, which should shed some light on where I come from and why my blog is called Camels With Hammers: In “The Three Transformations of the Spirit” in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone [...]

Here’s a post (or a comments section) in which you can get to know me beyond the basics that I laid out in my introductory post. Whether you’re a long time reader migrating over to the new site with me or a Freethought Blogs reader discovering Camels With Hammers for the first time, this can [...]

Hi everybody! For new readers, my name is Dan Fincke and I am truly delighted and honored to move my blog, Camels With Hammers to the FreeThought Blogs network, which I am certain will become the center of the atheist blogosphere in no time.  I am extremely grateful to Ed and PZ for giving me [...]

Stream it at 10PM here. Details about what the show will be about and clips of the comedians appearing with me here. Your Thoughts?

I’ve been lethargic from sickness since Saturday and so I have had no energy for blogging and have felt the need to spend as much of my energy as possible recuperating so that I can be well for my students as soon as possible. I promise a reinvigorated return to blogging soon as I am [...]

Sorry if you clicked on a post that went up earlier called “On Final Ends”. I accidentally had scheduled it to automatically post before I was finished writing it. As it wound up posting it was too long, too unfocused, and too intemperate in places so I have taken it down. The topics I was [...]

If you are new or if you have missed some days of new Camels With Hammers posts in the last half a year, thanks to some hard work from our webguy, Dave Smith, you can now check the “Dan’s Views” column on the left hand side of the site’s page and see a thoroughly updated [...]

I’d like to take a moment and apologize for the outage we’ve experienced over the past 24 hours. Our host was in the process of transitioning us to a new, more advanced data center, but the process didn’t go as smoothly as anticipated. It may take a few more hours for our new address to [...]

This year I’ve decided to introduce what I hope will be a fruitful new (hopefully) daily dimension to the blog, what I am going to call “Today’s Open Philosophical Question” (which will be abbreviated as “TOP Q”), in which I pose a question for the readership about either an abstract or applied philosophical question. Sometimes [...]