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In four previous posts, I have discussed with the Friendly Atheist’s advice columnist Richard Wade the origins of his “Ask Richard” column, the nature of family conflicts over atheism, the problems with forming one’s identity based on one’s beliefs (or non-beliefs), and how atheists should respond to the possibly religious dimensions of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the installment of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Honesty’
Asking Richard Wade About The Ethics of Lying To Stay In A Protective Closet
July 5th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Secularism 
Tags: Closeted Atheists, Honesty, Intolerance Against Atheists, Richard Wade, The Ethics of Lying, Truthfulness 
9 Comments »Disambiguating Faith: Trustworthiness, Loyalty, And Honesty
August 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The word faith is an ambiguous one and its various connotations get hopelessly confused with each other in ways that muddle many arguments about the ethical and epistemological justifications for holding beliefs on faith. Because of this, I want to write several posts here which disambiguate faith’s various senses and evaluate the worth of each [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Disambiguating Faith, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tags: Faithfulness, Honesty, Loyalty, Trustworthiness 11 Comments »Why Do People Behave Honestly?
July 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A new study by Joshua Greene and Joseph Paxton investigates the mental processes behind honest behavior: They recruited 35 people and asked them to predict the result of computerised coin-flips while sitting in an fMRI scanner. They were paid in proportion to their accuracy. In some ‘No-Opportunity trials’, they had to make their predictions beforehand, [...]
Posted in Ethics, Morality, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Uncategorized Tags: Honesty, Temptation No Comments »
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