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decision theory

Would you get on the plane?

January 10, 2020 by Randal

Yesterday, I posed the following question on Twitter: You wake up the morning of a scheduled flight from a vivid nightmare that the flight on which you’re booked crashes. You’ve never had a dream that vivid and it is terrifying, but you put it aside and drive to the airport. Once you arrive, you’re walking […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: decision theory, rationality, worldview

Feel free to sit on the fence, but don’t get caught in the lava flow

February 28, 2018 by Randal

Some years ago the Jewish philosopher David Shatz wrote an essay titled “The Overexamined Life is not Worth Living.” That title could apply equally to chapter 31 of my 2012 apologetics book The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails. The book features an extended Socratic-styled dialogue between an atheist named Sheridan and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: decision theory, rationality, reason, The Swedish Atheist the Scuba Diver and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails

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