News & Updates

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~ The latest newsletter is here.

~ Recent additions to Naturalism.Org and Memeing Naturalism:

• Close encounters of the 4th kind - metaphysical naturalism as an empirically plausible conjecture
• Respecting privacy: why consciousness isn't even epiphenomenal
• Naturalism as a positive worldview - conversation with Luke Muehlhauser at Common Sense Atheism
• Scripting the Future - spacetime and the nature of control.
• Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God, from 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk, editors
• Is Naturalism Nihilistic?
• Causation and Culpability

~Interviews on naturalism and Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses:

• Dr. Ginger Campbell interviews CFN director Tom Clark on worldview naturalism at Books and Ideas, transcript here.
• Point of Inquiry interviews with CFN director Tom Clark, here and here.
• Infidel Guy interview on naturalism.
• Reasonable Doubts interview with Jeremy Beahan.
• Interview with Steven Novella at Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
• Skeptiko interview with Alex Tsakiris.

~ Naturalism: The Next Step for Humanists? - video presentation on naturalism for the Freethought Association of Western Michigan.

~ Previous:

• Tennis Without a Net: The Emptiness of the Supernatural Hypothesis - review of The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism, by J.P. Moreland.
• Free Will Skepticism: Where Are the Skeptics? - a good debunking needed.
• Knowledge and the Meaning of Life - the big picture from Carlo Cellucci.
• The Mitigation Response: Getting Smart on Crime.
• Salience and Reputation - we need to take immediate action on behalf of global sustainability.
• Fully Caused - coming to terms with pragmatic determinism.
• Choosing Irrationality - review of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, by Gene M. Heyman.
• Putting epistemology first.
• Freedom from free will.