tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post2903656891563406111..comments2023-10-20T02:08:39.524-07:00Comments on Atheism: Proving The Negative: Reining In the Fallacious Human Belief MachineMatt McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17071078570021986664noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-58142099751430105512009-11-23T07:13:26.644-08:002009-11-23T07:13:26.644-08:00Great article as for me. I'd like to read some...Great article as for me. I'd like to read something more concerning that topic.<br />BTW look at the design I've made myself <a href="http://www.admirableescorts.com/" rel="nofollow">London escorts</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-78968419610489674842008-05-18T09:23:00.000-07:002008-05-18T09:23:00.000-07:00Awareness Test<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4" REL="nofollow">Awareness Test</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-41978038451602909732008-05-16T13:29:00.000-07:002008-05-16T13:29:00.000-07:00Only a slight tangent, but human perceptual illusi...Only a slight tangent, but human perceptual illusions can be studied, and are being studied, to see just how we misperceive things. Besides, they're fun.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.illusionsciences.com/" REL="nofollow">Illusion Sciences</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php" REL="nofollow">Best visual illusions of the year contest</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-58795925643835679542008-05-16T09:53:00.000-07:002008-05-16T09:53:00.000-07:00As usual, Prof. Sotnak is right on the money. I'v...As usual, Prof. Sotnak is right on the money. <BR/><BR/>I've been thinking about some related stuff while discussing reliabilism in my classes. Reliabilism is the view, roughly, that a person is justified in having a belief when that belief was produced by reliable cognitive faculties. And reliability can be measured empirically in terms of determining the rate at which a given method or belief forming mechanism actually gets it right overall. <BR/><BR/>The argument against naturalism that Eric alludes to here is roughly that we would not expect evolution to produce beings with reliable cognitive belief forming faculties such as ours if it is left to itself. But we do have reliable belief forming faculties, so we must have been produced by source that designed cognitive reliability into the system. <BR/><BR/>What Eric's argument and my long list of fallacies and studies make clear is that in a surprisingly large range of very common situations humans do not reliably form true beliefs. Some form of reliabilism is probably the best game in town for explaining what it would be to have a justified belief, and knowledge. But the empirical studies about the foibles of human reason give us good grounds for being unreliabilists. (And now we should wonder about our ability to form reliable beliefs about our unreliability.)<BR/><BR/>MMMatt McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17071078570021986664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-67821247776652802362008-05-16T09:44:00.000-07:002008-05-16T09:44:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Matt McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17071078570021986664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8716347331682132223.post-74644562055691508782008-05-16T05:55:00.000-07:002008-05-16T05:55:00.000-07:00An anti-theistic argument might be spawned from th...An anti-theistic argument might be spawned from this -- somewhat of a counterweight to Alvin Plantinga's argument against epistemic naturalism developed in his "warrant trilogy". A simplified version of the argument might go like this:<BR/><BR/>(1) If God exists, then God wants us to believe in him.<BR/>(2) If God wants us to believe in him, then he has made us in such a way that non-rational influences on belief formation are minimal.<BR/>(3) Non-rational influences on belief formation are not minimal.<BR/>(3) God does not exist.Eric Sotnakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06162425851889399481noreply@blogger.com