Richard Umbers

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Daleks are utilitarians, but are utilitarians Daleks?

Richard Umbers | 6 Oct 2011

Psychology researchers may have discovered a disturbing angle to utilitarian reasoning.

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"You have your truth, I have mine"

Richard Umbers | 20 Aug 2010

Relativism may be a comfortable creed, but it is intellectually lazy.

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What science knows and how it knows it

Richard Umbers | 17 Dec 2009

A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.

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Heil Herr Heidegger?

Richard Umbers | 11 Nov 2009

An attack on a flawed philosopher shows the deficiencies of political correctness.

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Chimps R'nt Us

Richard Umbers | 6 Oct 2009

If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?

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Animal choices

Richard Umbers | 24 Apr 2009

A whale lover explains why he cannot join Greenpeace.

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Have we arrived at the end of philosophy?

Richard Umbers | 14 Apr 2009

Has neuroscience really proved that morality is just a matter of feelings?

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Richard Dawkins and the meming of life

Richard Umbers | 6 Dec 2008

Having disposed of God, Darwin's Rottweiler has taken to barking at fairies. 

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Strictly for the star-struck

Richard Umbers | 22 May 2008

What does the Hollywood crowd see in Scientology? Whatever it is, Aussie billionaire James Packer is no longer putting his money on it.

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Evolution For Everyone

Richard Umbers | 11 Jan 2008

How adaptation, consequences and heredity explain absolutely everything you ever wanted to know about what it means to be a human being.

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