Richard Carrier

Author's details

Name: Richard Carrier
Date registered: November 7, 2011
URL: http://www.richardcarrier.info/

Biography

Richard Carrier is the renowned author of Sense and Goodness without God, Proving History, and Not the Impossible Faith, as well as numerous articles online and in print. His avid fans span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He has also become a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and the epistemology of history. For more about him and his work visit www.richardcarrier.info.

Latest posts

  1. Two Bayesian Fallacies — May 23, 2013
  2. What Do Ron Lindsay and an Oklahoma Tornado Have in Common? — May 22, 2013
  3. Appearing in Vegas and DC — May 14, 2013
  4. How to Be Skeptical of a Technological Singularity — May 13, 2013
  5. Two New Awesome Bloggers — May 9, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. The New Atheism + — 696 comments
  2. Is Thunderf00t a Sociopath? — 457 comments
  3. Ex Nihilo Onus Merdae Fit — 391 comments
  4. Ehrman on Jesus: A Failure of Facts and Logic — 351 comments
  5. Ehrman Trashtalks Mythicism — 346 comments

Author's posts listings

May 23 2013

Two Bayesian Fallacies

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Bayes' Theorem, mathematics, replies

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Depiction of the long-form equation for Bayes' Theorem: the probability of a hypothesis (h) given all evidence (e) and background knowledge (b) equals the product of the probability of the hypothesis (h) given only background knowledge (b) and the probability of the evidence (e) given the hypothesis (h) and background knowledge (b), divided by the sum of that same product and the product of the probability of the hypothesis being false (not-h) given only background knowledge (b) and the probability of the evidence (e) given the hypothesis being false (not-h) and background knowledge (b).

At INR3 in Kamloops I spoke on applying Bayesian logic to the study of Jesus along with the same principles we apply to dead religions (so as to avoid the “don’t offend the Christians” reaction to controversial claims…claims that would not be controversial if Jesus was not the object of worship of billions of loud, …

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May 22 2013

What Do Ron Lindsay and an Oklahoma Tornado Have in Common?

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atheism plus, feminism, women

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Besides raging over the same weekend? Both are ignorantly destructive blowhards, apparently. At least Lindsay didn’t kill anything (except his own common sense, and maybe his career in secular leadership). Lots happened while I was away at the fantastic Imagine No Religion conference in Kamloops, BC. I recommend it for next year, it has been …

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May 14 2013

Appearing in Vegas and DC

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appearances

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This June I’ll be speaking at the SSA conference in Las Vegas and for CFI in Washington D.C. First stop is CFI DC (June 9): I’ll be the guest speaker for the Voices of Reason lecture series for the regional CFI affiliate in D.C. from 5-7pm on Sunday, June 9 (2013). Price of admission is reasonable …

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May 13 2013

How to Be Skeptical of a Technological Singularity

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mind, technology

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Chris Hallquist has hosted a guest post on his blog by Luke Muehlhauser, whom some of you might remember as the brilliant and balanced author of Common Sense Atheism and Worldview Naturalism, and who is now executive director of MIRI. As Hallquist describes the post, “Luke does not intend to persuade skeptics that they should …

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May 09 2013

Two New Awesome Bloggers

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about, updates

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Photo of Yemisi Ilesanmi

FreethoughtBlogs has added two new fascinating bloggers, both from the UK: Ally Fogg and Yemisi Ilesanmi. These will really get the hackles up of the anti-feminist crowd, since one is a card carrying feminist (And black. And a woman. Chicken littles, begin your rant…) while the other is a voice of reason in the same …

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May 07 2013

Help a Library in Pakistan

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about, charity, education, Hinduism

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This is an opportunity to do something cool. I was contacted recently by a library in a predominately Hindu region of Pakistan, asking if I’d be so kind as to send them some free copies of my books (which they even knew and requested by name). My books. Books with titles like Sense and Goodness …

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May 02 2013

You Should Join the SSA (At the Very Least!)

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atheism, charity, education, Secular Student Alliance

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The Secular Student Alliance is one of the most important organizations atheists have in their corner. It’s doing some of the most important work there is, answering Campus Crusade for Christ (and its various incarnations and emanations) by establishing and supporting (in many brilliant and valuable ways) secular student clubs on college campuses and American …

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May 01 2013

Zindler-Price Anthology: Contra Ehrman

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about, ancient history, Bart Ehrman, book reviews, Jesus, publications

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Frank Zindler and Bob Price have edited their own anthology of “responses” to Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist? For this project Zindler bought the rights from me to include a special summary edition of my blogging on the same subject (see Ehrman on Historicity Recap). This anthology is now available through American Atheist Press …

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Apr 30 2013

Appearing in Kamloops

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I will be speaking at the Imagine No Religion 3 conference in Kamloops, British Columbia (Canada) this May 17th through 19th (2013). For details (including registration, on-site daycare, entertainments, venue, speaker lineup, etc.) click the previous link (or to just look at registration options right away, click here). The event will be held at the …

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Apr 26 2013

May Online Course on Free Will

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appearances, classes, education, free will, naturalism, philosophy

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I will be teaching an online course on the science and philosophy of free will for the Center for Inquiry Institute this May. Anyone can register. Fee varies (from $30 to $70 depending on your status). Details on the course and registration options are provided at the CFI Website. It is one month only, four …

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