Review of Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham

Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College) reviews the book for NDPR, here.

Philosophy TV: Elga, Schechter, and White on the Problem of Troublingly Contingent Beliefs

Over at Philosophy TV, Adam Elga, Joshua Schecter, and Roger White discuss the following problem:

Your beliefs about matters such as politics, religion, and morality are contingent on epistemically irrelevant factors like the time and place of your birth. Does this worry you? Should it? Elga maintains that this sort of contingency of our beliefs should not by itself undermine our confidence in them. Schechter and White challenge that position.

Newly Discovered Lead Codices: the Most Important Discovery of Early Christianity?

...or perhaps it's a much less significant discovery that's been hyped for Easter season. I don't have the foggiest idea one way or the other. In any case, here's one of the links to the story.

A Modal Cosmological Argument for Atheism

Consider the following principle:  WEAK PMC: Possibly, every concrete object (and aggregate of such) that has an originating or sustaining e...