Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Republishing from 2015 - Why I still support Charlie Hebdo

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  Russell Blackford ,  University of Newcastle You know the shocking story: in January 2015, two masked Islamist gunmen launched a paramilit...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

My submission re the Online Safety Amendment Bill

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  TO: Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 ...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

My Submission re the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

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  TO: Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Vale, Felix!

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This plucky little blog began life almost exactly 18 years ago with a cluster of posts on 26 March 2006 - including one that introduced our ...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

My (hilariously inaccurate) biography according to ChatGPT

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Warning, what follows is what ChatGPT came up with when I asked it to write a biography for me. It sounds very plausible and some of it is, ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Interview with Atheists for Liberty

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I have a new interview online - this time with Thomas Sheedy from the American organization Atheists for Liberty. Check it out here on YouTu...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Faculty letter in support of Stephen Kershnar

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I have signed this letter , published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in support of Professor Stephen Kershnar. Profes...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

My submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

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I have sent a submission to this committee, which is currently inquiring into the Australian government's package of Bills to introduce ...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

New paper on radical enhancement: "Destiny and Desire"

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A new paper from me on radical enhancement : "Destiny Destiny and Desire: How To Think About Radical Enhancement." This is publish...
Friday, December 31, 2021

My essay "The Making of a Cancel Culture" in TPM

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My essay "The Making of a Cancel Culture" has appeared online in The Philosophers' Magazine . Check it out. Sample: In this es...