Table of Contents

I’ve long wanted to put all the essays in Greatplay.net in one, easy to find place. Now I have to wait no longer, for I have finally done it! I present every essay I have on this website, all linked in one ordered presentation.

These often don’t follow categories perfectly, because topics from different categories often come together to make a single case or series. Typically the essays will be listed in chronological order, but will occasionally be resorted if they are intended to be read in a certain order. Each list is meant to be read from top to bottom.

The one downside is that this page will be updated and sorted manually, so you might have to wait a bit for everything to be updated. This is also an upside, however, because it means I will constantly reorganize the content in the way I think best presents it. This table of contents was last updated 12 Mar 2012.

Table of Contents of the Table of Contents

Atheism, Naturalism, and Humanism

Why I’m Not Christian
Why I’m Atheist

God is Unproven

The Cl – Peter Debate
Why I’m Naturalist-Humanist

Naturalism and Humanism in Depth

Naturalism as a Livable Worldview
On Knowledge and Truth
On The Use of Words
Improving Rationality
Assorted Philosophy

Normativity, Morality, and Making the World a Better Place

On Normativity and Value
On Utilitarianism
Philanthropy
Non-Profit Development
Community Building
Social Entreprenuership

Politics, Economics, History, and Psychology

Assorted Political Science
Assorted Economics
Foreign Policy
Constitutional Law
Political Commentary
Assorted History
Assorted Psychology

Mathematics and Computer Science

Making and Understanding Large Numbers
Applying Mathematics
Applying Physics
Creating Artificial Intelligence
Assorted Computer Programming
Analyzing Wikipedia
Assorted Cryptography

Fun Things

Weekly Link Roundup
Discussion Roundup
Ask Peter
The RandomCast
Disappointment and Compromise: A Webcomic
Will and Kevin’s Rap Review Challenge
Random Fun Things

Me, Music, Fiction, And This Blog

Assorted Me
Assorted Music

Assorted Fiction

Meta-Blogging
Retrospectives
New Years Resolutions
Site Updates
Recanted Essays

Arguing about Religion

Why Argue About Religion? (Aug 2011)
To Be Close Minded (Aug 2011)
How to Ignore Everything I Say (About Religion) (Jan 2012)

Why I’m Not a Christian

Comments on “Letters from a Skeptic”, 1: The Preface (Feb 2012)
Comments on “Letters from a Skeptic”, 2: Evil (Jun 2012)
The Contradictory Failure of Prayer, Part I (Jul 2011)
The Contradictory Failure of Prayer, Part II (Jul 2011)
God, Babies, Hell, and Justice (Nov 2011)
The Biblical God is a Malevolent Bully, Part I (Nov 2011)
The Biblical God is a Malevolent Bully, Part II (Nov 2011)
The Christian God Sure Takes His Sweet Time (Dec 2011)
Does Christianity Contradict Evidence? (Oct 2011)
Why I Became a Christian (Apr 2012)

Why I’m Atheist

Defining Atheist and Agnostic (Jun 2012)
Where is God?, Part I (Jun 2011)
Where is God?, Part II (Jun 2011)
There Are No Religious Facts (Nov 2011)
Is There a Purpose to Religion? by Dee Mason (Sep 2011)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, Part 1: Incompatibility (Mar 2012)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, 2: Omniscience (Mar 2012)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, 3: Evil (Mar 2012)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, 4: Skeptical Theism (May 2012)
My List of Theodicy Responses (Jun 2012)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, 5: Imperfection (Apr 2012)
TheraminTrees’s Atheism, 6: Atheism and What’s Left (Aug 2012)

Rebutting Theistic Arguments
Defining Away the Ontological Arguement (Oct 2011)
Why Not to Take Pascal’s Wager (Jan 2011)
Global Warming and Pascal’s Wager (Sep 2011)
But Religion is Useful! (Aug 2011)
The Good of Religion (Jul 2012)
Why the Moral Argument Fails (Feb 2013)
The Euthyphro Dilemma (Feb 2013)
The Anti-Moral Argument for God’s Nonexistence (Feb 2013)
Weekly Link Roundup #65: Rebutting the Fine-Tuning Argument (Feb 2013)
Weekly Link Roundup #64: Rebutting the Design Argument (Feb 2013)
Weekly Link Roundup #63: Rebutting the Cosmological Argument (Feb 2013)

The Cl – Peter Debate

Revisiting the Problem of Evil, Part I (Sep 2011)
A Debate: Me vs. Cl on the Evidential Problem of Evil (Feb 2012)
Cl – Peter Debate: Index of Entries and Comentary (Feb 2012)
Cl – Peter Debate: Peter’s Opening Statement (Feb 2012)
Cl – Peter Debate: Cl’s First Rebuttal (Feb 2012)
Cl – Peter Debate: Postponed Until Further Notice (Feb 2012)
Cl – Peter Debate: The End of a New Beginning (Mar 2012)
Cl, Bubonic Plagues, and Bibles, Part I (Mar 2012)
Cl, Bubonic Plagues, and Bibles, Part II (May 2012)
Heaven, Coddling Gods, and Other Theodicies (Jun 2012)
A Cl Status Report (Sep 2012)

Why I’m Naturalist-Humanist

What is Naturalism-Humanism? (Dec 2010)
Defining the Natural and Supernatural (Aug 2011)
Reductionism Made Simple (Aug 2011)
The Magical Magician: A Naturalist’s Allegory (Aug 2011)
The Irreducible Sandwich: A Second Allegory (Dec 2011)
The Twelve Reasons I Don’t Believe in Supernatural Claims, Part I (Dec 2010)
The Twelve Reasons I Don’t Believe in Supernatural Claims, Part II (Jan 2011)
The Metaphysics Dilemma (Nov 2011)
Making the Question Go Away (Nov 2011)
Continuing Comments on Randomness and Naturalism (Jan 2012)
Essays that Inspire Me (May 2011)

Naturalism as a Livable Worldview

Is Naturalism Bleak and Hopeless? (Aug 2011)
Is Life an Accident? (Aug 2011)
Do We Need an Ultimate Purpose? (Sep 2011)
More Problems With Ultimate Purpose and Heaven (Sep 2011)
The Patriotic Humanist (Jul 2011)
The Death of a Friend (Jul 2011)
A Second Personal Essay on Death (Oct 2012)
Understand Your Ally (Oct 2011)
This is What I’m Fighting For (Oct 2011)
The True Fear of Being Wrong (Nov 2011)
Atheism+, Or How Atheists Can Win at Justice (Aug 2012)

On Knowledge and Truth

Bayes Theorem is Best Theorem (Jan 2011)
The Origin of Truth (Jul 2011)
Meaningfully True (Jul 2011)
The End of Cartesian Demons (Aug 2011)
Knowledge, A Priori and Absolute (Oct 2011)
The Map and the Territory (Oct 2011)
The Spectre of Scientism (Nov 2011)

On The Use of Words

A Proposal To Remove Calendar Date Ambiguity (Jan 2013)
Free As In Prepaid (Jan 2013)
Unscrew the Applause Lights (Apr 2011)
The Folly of Debating Definitions (Jul 2011)
Don’t Smuggle Your Connotations (Sep 2011)
Birds are Dinosaurs, But Pluto Isn’t a Planet, Part I (Nov 2011)
Birds are Dinosaurs, But Pluto Isn’t a Planet, Part II (Nov 2011)
Birds are Dinosaurs, But Pluto Isn’t a Planet, Part III (Nov 2011)
The “Why Do We Care?” Test (Nov 2011)
Applied Definition Debates: How History and Politics are Both Science and Not Science (Feb 2013)

Improving Rationality

Yes, Voting is Rational, So Please Go Vote (Nov 2012)
Joseph Kony and Malaria: Why Rationality Matters (Mar 2012)
The Sad Truth of Inferential Distance (Jan 2012)
Magic Tricks Revealed: Test Your Rationality (Aug 2011)

Assorted Philosophy

P-Zombies are Fallacious (Dec 2011)
Identity Confusion as Definition Confusion, Part I (Nov 2011)
Identity Confusion as Definition Confusion, Part II (Nov 2011)
Free Will that Makes Sense (Feb 2011)

On Normativity and Value

Normativity Series Executive Summary (Oct 2012)
The Normativity Series Companion Reader (May 2012)
The Meaning of Morality (Oct 2011)
Good and Ought as Relative (Jun 2012)
Categorical Ought as Rhetorical Ought (Jun 2012)
Categorical Imperatives and Quadruple-Function Normativity (Jul 2012)
The Is-Ought Gap (Jul 2012)
Too Many Moralities (Jul 2012)
We Ought Not Have an Ought Simpliciter (Oct 2012)
Normative Statements Can Be True or False (Oct 2012)
Will The Real Moral Realism Please Stand Up? (Nov 2012)
Finlay and Joyce on Moral Discourse (Nov 2012)
Why Moral Realism Is False And How We Can Still Have Moral Discourse Without It (Dec 2012)
Questions for Moral Realists (Feb 2013)
You Can’t Unify Rationality and Morality (Jan 2013)
The Curious Case of Detached Value (Nov 2011)

On Utilitarianism

Commonsense Utilitarianism (Nov 2012)
How a Utilitarian Crosses the Street (Nov 2012)
The Doing-Allowing Distinction Is The Only Thing Preventing Donald Trump From Being Considered a Terrorist (Nov 2012)
Why Vegetarianism? (Nov 2012)

Philanthropy

Charity: Should I Talk About It? (Nov 2012)
Charity: How Much Should I Give? (Nov 2012)
Charity: Where Should My Money Go? (Dec 2012)
Uncertainty in Giving And Why I’m Not Currently Giving To Reduce Existential Risk (Dec 2012)
New Project: The Vegan Outreach Cost-Effectiveness Calculator (Dec 2012)
New Evidence for Cost-Effective Vegan Outreach (Jan 2013)
For Impact, The Future Matters More (Feb 2013)
In Giving, It Pays to Precommit (Oct 2012)
Giving is Hard, But There’s Help (Jun 2012)
Joining GivingWhatWeCan (Aug 2012)
Just How Do We Know if a Non-Profit is Effective, Anyway? (Jun 2012)
The Donor Isn’t Always Right (Jul 2012)
Leaping Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Look First (Jun 2012)
Just What is Venture Philanthropy? (Jul 2012)
College Student Philanthropy and Funding Millenium Villages (Feb 2013)

Non-Profit Development

In Non-Profits, Who is the Customer? (Jul 2012)
Ten Ways to Fund a Non-Profit (Aug 2012)
Capacity Building: What, Why, and How (Aug 2012)
Conceptualizing Capacity: The Capacity Pyramid (Aug 2012)
Conceptualizing Capacity: The Capacity Framework and Core Components (Aug 2012)

Community Building

How to Build a Community (Jul 2012)
Why Don’t People Help Others More? (Jul 2012)
The Community That Stays Together, Gives Together (Nov 2012)
To Inspire People To Give, Be Public (Jan 2013)

Social Entreprenuership

The Challenges of “Great People” (Aug 2012)

Assorted Political Science

Different Hearts for Different Heads: How Personality Moderates the Emotional Impact of Political Advertisement (Jan 2013)
New Answers to New Threats: Foreign Aid Expansion As a Response to September 11 (Dec 2012)
You Can’t Make Everyone Happy All The Time: Congress Dissaproval Research (May 2012)
Opinions, Perceptions, and Networks – More Political Science Research (Jan 2012)
Rating Presidential Candidates By the PolitiFact Heuristic (Nov 2011)
The Media Creates Confidence: Political Science Research (May 2011)
A Mandate to Be Angry (Jul 2011)
[Flowchart] How a Bill Becomes a Law (Oct 2009)
Hacking the Electoral College (Oct 2009)

Assorted Economics

Employer of Last Resort: Economics Research (Aug 2012)
Inflating Our Way to Employment and Investment Confidence (Jun 2012)
An Economics Research Proposal and Blog Project (Jun 2012)
The Expected Utility of Lottery Tickets (Feb 2011)

Foreign Policy

The Failures of Foreign Aid (And Some Potential Fixes) (Jun 2012)
Foreign Policy and Free Will: Presidential Foreign Policy Preferences as a Determining Factor of Foreign Policy (Feb 2013)

Constitutional Law

The Constitutionality of ObamaCare: Background (Jul 2012)
The Constitutionality of ObamaCare: Commerce and Elastic Clause (Jul 2012)

Citizens United v. FEC: Case Brief (Feb 2012)

Political Commentary

Aaron Swartz (Jan 2013)
What the Election “Means” (Nov 2012)
Obama, Et. Al. (Nov 2012)
The Role of Government and My Roundabout Endorsement of Barack Obama (Nov 2012)
You’re Not Entitled to Your Policy Opinions (Oct 2012)
I Too Am A Values Voter (Sep 2012)
Why The ObamaCare Mandate Isn’t Infringing Your Freedoms (Jul 2012)
Out of Many, A Dumb Motto (May 2012)
Taking Out God is Equality, Not Atheism (Sep 2012)
Much Ado About Gay Marriage, Part I (May 2012)
Much Ado About Gay Marriage, Part II (May 2012)
What the Social Issues Debates are Missing (Mar 2012)
Why “Citizens United v. FEC” Isn’t a Huge Deal (Feb 2010)
The TL;DR Version of SOPA Opposition (Jan 2012)
What’s Up With SOPA, Part I (Jan 2012)
What’s Up With SOPA, Part II (Feb 2012)
What is Bachmann’s God Telling Us? (Aug 2011)
Why We Need Net Neutrality (Apr 2010)
Why 2012 Will Not Be the End of the World (Nov 2009)
Why Independent Thought Died Today (Sep 2009)
The Democrats Have Total Control! Oh No! (Jul 2009)
Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out About Swine Flu (Apr 2009)
Swine Flu Revisited: You Still Shouldn’t Worry About It (May 2009)
The Whole Obama’s Birth Certificate Thing (Apr 2009)

Assorted History

What Happened to the Declaration Dudes? (Jul 2011)
Dogs Playing Poker by Reese McKinzie (Jul 2011)
A Brief History of Franklin, The State (Aug 2009)
A Brief History of the First 100 Days (Apr 2009)
Can Texas Secede? (Apr 2009)
Could Alexander Hamilton Be President? (Mar 2009)

Assorted Psychology

LessWrong Survey Results: Do Ethical Theories Effect Behavior (Dec 2012)
A Critique of Leverage Research’s Connection Theory (Sep 2012)

Making and Understanding Large Numbers

Large Numbers, Part 1: Magnitude and Simple Functions (May 2011)
Large Numbers, Part 2: Graham and Conway (May 2011)
Large Numbers, Part 3: Functions and Ordinals (May 2011)
Large Numbers, Part 4: Epsilon and Phi (Jun 2011)
Large Numbers, Part 5: SVO, LVO, and Beyond (Oct 2011)
Comparing Moser Notation With Conway Notation (Jan 2011)
Conway and Moser Revisited (Feb 2011)

Applying Mathematics

Please Stop Multiplying By 100 To Get a Percentage (Sep 2012)
Understanding the Birthday Paradox (May 2010)
The “Ultimate 0.999… = 1″ Guide (Nov 2009)
Why You Can’t Do Math With Infinity (Dec 2009)
Visualizing the Monty Hall Problem (Apr 2009)
Is Zero Even, Odd, Both, or Neither? (Apr 2009)
Monkeys on Typewriters (Jan 2010)
How to Do A Cool Mathmagic Trick With A Deck of Cards (Jun 2009)

Applying Physics

A Solution to the Physics of Santa (Dec 2009)
A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part II (Dec 2009)
A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part III (Jan 2010)
Why Time Travel is Also Space Travel (Jan 2010)
Star Trek Innacuracy #1: The Hand Phaser (Jul 2009)
Why World Jump Day Won’t Do Anything (Jun 2009)
Can The Death Star Really Destroy A Planet? (May 2009)
Death Star Part II: How to Power The Thing (May 2009)
Death Star Part III: Easier Ways to Destroy A Planet (Jun 2009)
Death Star Part IV: How to Move a Celestial Body (Jun 2009)
Why Heaven is Hotter than Hell (Jun 2009)
The Airplane On a Treadmill Problem (May 2009)
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? (Apr 2009)
How to Get a Time Machine and $700K (Aug 2011)

Creating Artificial Intelligence

Why Is No One Making a Chatbot? (Apr 2011)
A Complete List of Syllogisms (Apr 2011)
The 2011 Chatterbox Challenge (Apr 2011)

Assorted Computer Programming

A PHP Script to Turn Written Numbers into Normal Numbers (Feb 2011)
A Smart 404 Page in PHP (Apr 2009)

Analyzing Wikipedia

Predicting The Three Millionth Article (May 2009)
The Millionth Wikipedia Article Followup (Now With Theory!) (Aug 2009)
Wikipedia, Two Years Later (May 2011)
Random Featured Article for Wikipedia (and the Making Thereof) (May 2009)

Assorted Cryptography

Steganography in Social Media (Aug 2011)

Discussion Roundup

Discussion Roundup #8 (Jan 2013)
Discussion Roundup #7 (Dec 2012)
Discussion Roundup #6 (Nov 2012)
Discussion Roundup #5 (Nov 2012)
Discussion Roundup #4 (Oct 2012)
Discussion Roundup #3 (Aug 2012)
Discussion Roundup #2 (Aug 2012)
Discussion Roundup #1 (Jul 2012)

Ask Peter

Ask Peter 22: NaNoWriMo Edition (Nov 2011)
Ask Peter 21: Return of the Question Man (Aug 2011)
Ask Peter 20: The Inanity Continues (Jun 2011)
Ask Peter 19: It’s Back and Reloaded (Dec 2010)
Ask Peter 18: A Return from Hiatus (Mar 2010)
Ask Peter 17: A Return to Normalcy (Jan 2010)
Ask Peter 16: Katie Edition, Part II (Jan 2010)
Ask Peter 15: Katie Edition, Part I (Jan 2010)
Starting the Year with Ask Peter (Jan 2010)
Ask Peter 13 (Dec 2009)
Ask Peter 12 (Nov 2009)
Ask Peter 11 (Nov 2009)
Ask Peter 10 (Oct 2009)
Ask Peter Edition Nine! (Sep 2009)
Ask Peter Clearout: Five Fast Questions (Sep 2009)
Three Questions for the Week (Aug 2009)
The Ask Peter Mailbag Clearout (Aug 2009)
Two Things: OMG Zebra, and Ask Peter (Jul 2009)
Three Questions (Jun 2009)
Cop Out Question (Jun 2009)
Some Saturday Stuff: Ask Peter and New Series (May 2009)
Ask Peter: Beware the H1Z1 (May 2009)

The RandomCast

The RandomCast 2: SFIV Edition (Jul 2009)
Five Minute Microcast: T2cast (Jun 2009)

Disappointment and Compromise: A Webcomic

Disappoinment and Compromise: A Webcomic (Jul 2011)
More Disappointment and Compromise (Jul 2011)

Will and Kevin’s Rap Review Challenge

Empire State of Mind (Dec 2009)
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton (Oct 2009)
A Milli by Lil’ Wayne (Oct 2009)
Forever by Drake (ft. Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Eminem) (Sep 2009)

Random Fun Things

Announcing Den Con 2013 (Feb 2013)
The Script (Sep 2012)
Moving Forward to NaNoWriMo by Emily Williams (Nov 2011)
Is Mew a Ditto (Feb 2011)
Finding Today’s Stardate (in the Next Generation) (Feb 2010)
Why The Internet is God (or Another Deity of Your Choice) (May 2009)
Ten Things I Learned From Wikipedia Random Article (Apr 2009)
Velociraptor Awareness Day (Apr 2009)
Wolfram|Alpha Is Really Neat (May 2009)
Wolfram|Alpha is Listening (Jun 2009)

Assorted Me

How is Peter Exercising? (Jan 2013)
An Atheist Celebrates Christmas (Dec 2012)
Happy Birthday to Me (Dec 2012)
Want to Get Me a Gift for My Birthday or a December Holiday? Please Follow This Simple Advice! (Nov 2012)
The Sort-Of NaNoWriMo Experiment Sort-Of Redux Extravaganza 2012 (Oct 2012)
What is Peter Watching? (Jul 2012)
I’m Never As Clear As I Think I Am (Jun 2012)
Quick Academic Interest Updates (Mar 2012)
Books I Want to Write (May 2012)
Peer Reviewed Journal Article And/Or Bust (Apr 2012)
The End of a NaNoWriMo (Nov 2011)
The NaNoWriMo 2011 Experiment (Oct 2011)
What is Peter Reading? (Aug 2011)
The Books I Have Read: Ratings, Reviews, and Summaries (Oct 2012)
I’m a Graduate (Jun 2010)
Two Videos I (and Friends) Have Made (Apr 2010)
This is Why I’m Not Blogging Today (Mar 2010)
OS X: A Space Odyssey (Oct 2009)

Assorted Music

Problem with Forced Lyrics (Apr 2009)
My Top 10 Most Played Songs (May 2009)
My Top 10 Most Played Songs, Four Months Later (Sep 2009)
My Top 10 Most Played Songs, Two Years Later (May 2011)
Random Album Covers (Jan 2011)

Assorted Fiction

Skyfall Has Skyfallen Out of My Favor (Feb 2013)
High School Paper: Asimov, Robots, and Humanity (Feb 2013)

Meta-Blogging

Why Do I Blog? (Jan 2013)
My NaNoWriMo Dilemma (Nov 2011)
I’ve Been Featured on Reddit (July 2011)
A Hopeful Search For Internet (Mar 2009)
Sometimes I Don’t Understand Google Image Search (Mar 2009)
This Site, Google Images, Daleks and Skis, Revisited (Apr 2009)
Daleks on Skis Re-Revisited (Jun 2009)
Daleks on Skis, Re-Re-Revisited (Jun 2009)
How to Use a Truck to Game, Or Trick, Google Images (Jul 2009)
Some Explaining and Some Google Image Zebra News (Jul 2009)
Google Images Strikes Again: The Velociraptor Edition (Jul 2011)
Comment Spam: It’s Like They’re Not Trying Anymore (May 2009)

Retrospectives

Web of Beliefs 2012: Complete Edition (Feb 2013)
More Feedback for Me? (Jan 2013)
Web of Beliefs 2012 (Jan 2013)
The NaNoWriMo 2012 Reflection (Dec 2012)
What Am I Thankful For? (Nov 2012)
Blog Plans for Next Year (Dec 2011)
Web of Beliefs and My Philosophy (Dec 2011)
Feedback for Me? (Dec 2011)
The NaNoWriMo Reflection (Dec 2011)
2011 in Review (Dec 2011)
2010 in Review (Dec 2010)
2009 in Review (Dec 2009)

New Years Resolutions

New Years Resolutions (Jan 2013)
Resolutions Update, February Edition (Feb 2013)
Resolutions Update, March Edition (Feb 2013)

Site Updates

Taking the Week Off (Feb 2013)
Skipping This Week (Jan 2013)
Any Good WordPress Subscribe By Email Plug-Ins? (Jan 2013)
Personal Website (Jan 2013)
2013: The Third Year of The Future (Dec 2012)
New About Page (Dec 2012)
So I Decided It’s Kind of Irresponsible to Blog During Exam Week… (Dec 2012)
A New Posting Schedule for Now (Dec 2012)
Like the Eighth Redesign or Something (Nov 2012)
Last Live-Tweeting: The Election Results (Nov 2012)
Announcing A Break From Writing Overtly About Religion (Oct 2012)
Live-Tweeting This Presidential Debate Too! (Oct 2012)
On Fall Break! Back Friday! (Oct 2012)
Live-Tweeting the Vice-Presidential Debate (Oct 2012)
Taking the Week Off (Sep 2012)
2012 Blogging Schedule (Sep 2012)
Back to School (Aug 2012)
Redesign: Take Seven (Aug 2012)
How You Can Follow Greatplay.net (Aug 2012)
Taking the Week Off For My Paper (Aug 2012)
A Bit More Redeisgn (Jul 2012)
One Week Vacation (Jul 2012)
A Little Touch of Re-design (Jun 2012)
No Essay Today (Jun 2012)
Back for a Third Blogxperiment (May 2012)
Friggin’ Inconvenient (Jan 2012)
Skipping the Week Again (Jan 2012)
Skipping this Week (Dec 2011)
Back to the Normal Way of Posts (Dec 2011)
One Week Essay Break (Sep 2011)
Experiment Over: New Blogging Schedule (Sep 2011)
A Blog Semi-Vacation (Aug 2011)
Some Site News (Jul 2011)
A Blogging Experiment (Jul 2011)
Cleaning Up the Site (Jun 2011)
And We’re Back (Dec 2010)
New Theme + First Death Threat (May 2010)
New Game: Platformer (Apr 2010)
LaTeX (Jan 2010)
The Daily Deck (Nov 2009)
9/9/09 and Website Redesign (Sep 2009)
Today is Labour Day (Sep 2009)
New Layout Among Other Stuff (Jun 2009)
New Content: Is It a Word And Ask Peter (May 2009)
Update to Puzzle (Apr 2009)
Puzzle: A New Game (Apr 2009)
New Site is Up (Mar 2009)

Recanted Essays

These are essays I have taken out of the normal table of contents because I recant and now find what I wrote inaccurate and/or misleading. Often, this is because of response by fellow commenters, which I am grateful for. I leave this as a catalog of my mistakes and a reminder not to repeat them.

Meaning of Ought, Part I (Nov 2011)
Meaning of Ought, Part II (Nov 2011)
Meaning of Ought, Part III (Nov 2011)
Clarifying Comments on Ought, Part I (Nov 2011)
Clarifying Comments on Ought, Part II (Nov 2011)
Clarifying the Idea of Meaning (Sep 2011)
Of Oughts and Is, Part I (Feb 2012)
Of Oughts and Is, Part II (Feb 2012)
Of Oughts and Is, Part III (May 2012)
Jumping Over The Is-Ought Gap (Draft) (May 2012)
The Great Problem of Evil, Part I (Jun 2011)
The Great Problem of Evil, Part II (Jun 2011)
The Great Problem of Evil, Part III (Jun 2011)
Is God Good?, Part I (Dec 2011)
Is God Good?, Part II (Jan 2012)
A Unicornism and the True Definition of Atheism (Jan 2011)
Proving God Through Cosmology? (Nov 2011)
God is Unproven (Feb 2012)

I now blog at EverydayUtilitarian.com. I hope you'll join me at my new blog! This page has been left as an archive.

On 15 Jun 2011 in All, Metablogging. 6 Comments.

6 Comments

#1 Ruth says:
6 Aug 2012, 8:12 pm
I don’t know if you are aware that an essay of yours was referenced in a formal logic book for teens call Discovery of Deduction by Hodge et al published in 2009. The location given does not lead to the essay we are supposed to read: http://www.greatplay.net/uselessia/articles/zeno%20paradoxes.html

If this article is still available, would you please tell me where to find it.

Thanks,

Ruth
#2 Peter Hurford (author) says:
6 Aug 2012, 11:23 pm
I don’t know if you are aware that an essay of yours was referenced in a formal logic book for teens call Discovery of Deduction by Hodge et al published in 2009.

That’s interesting; I’ll have to go look it up. You wouldn’t happen to know the page number by chance, would you?

~

The location given does not lead to the essay we are supposed to read: http://www.greatplay.net/uselessia/articles/zeno%20paradoxes.html

If this article is still available, would you please tell me where to find it.

The URL you posted works for me.
#3 Stephen R. Diamond says:
6 Aug 2012, 11:37 pm
Congratulations!
#4 Ruth says:
7 Aug 2012, 12:39 am
Page 39. My husband runs all sorts of filters on our machine, so it must have blocked my access for some reason. Thanks!

Ruth
#5 Peter Hurford (author) says:
7 Aug 2012, 2:35 am
Sweet! Thanks!
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2 Jan 2013, 9:21 am
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