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Important Camels With Hammers News
August 22, 2011 – 4:51 amI am extremely excited to announce that I am moving to Freethought Blogs, a much more visible blogging network, one headlined by such prominent and influential atheist bloggers as PZ Myers and Ed Brayton (and, soon, Ophelia Benson and Greta Christina and more). I am convinced that in a relatively short time this network will [...]
Coming Soon To Camels With Hammers: More Nietzsche
August 17, 2011 – 3:59 pmI wrote my doctoral dissertation primarily on Nietzsche’s philosophy. In the first four chapters, I developed a textual, systematic reading of Nietzsche’s views on metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, and in the fifth chapter I gave my own account of metaethics which attempted, on the one hand, to further develop, supplement, and systematize Nietzsche’s best ideas, [...]
My Appearance on the Ardent Atheist Podcast
March 19, 2011 – 11:09 amSo, last Wednesday night I went on the Ardent Atheist show and you can now stream it just by clicking here or, if you would like to download it free from iTunes, by clicking here and selecting episode 005. The comedians who I had the privilege of being on the show with were really great [...]
I’ll Be On The Ardent Atheist Podcast 10PM EST Tonight
March 16, 2011 – 10:14 amStream it at 10PM here. Details about what the show will be about and clips of the comedians appearing with me here. Your Thoughts?
Guest Blogger James Gray This Weekend And My First Podcast Appearance (Wednesday 3/16)
March 11, 2011 – 5:56 pmHey everyone, I’m still trying to rest up so that I can beat this illness, and so I have asked good friend of Camels With Hammers, our popular frequent commenter James Gray (of the blog Ethical Realism) to fill in for me this weekend. Also, I am excited to announce that I will be interviewed [...]
Sick
March 10, 2011 – 12:53 pmI’ve been lethargic from sickness since Saturday and so I have had no energy for blogging and have felt the need to spend as much of my energy as possible recuperating so that I can be well for my students as soon as possible. I promise a reinvigorated return to blogging soon as I am [...]
I Have Received An Open Letter
March 3, 2011 – 1:56 amIn reply to my post Why Atheists Should Not Give Up Challenging Theism And Theists (and to the subsequent overly-dramatic fallout in that post’s comments section), comes this “open letter” to me from GreenGeekGirl. I do not think I have ever received an open letter before (unless we count the one from that rabbi to the [...]
Nothing To See Here…
February 11, 2011 – 10:01 pmSorry if you clicked on a post that went up earlier called “On Final Ends”. I accidentally had scheduled it to automatically post before I was finished writing it. As it wound up posting it was too long, too unfocused, and too intemperate in places so I have taken it down. The topics I was [...]
Catching Up With Camels With Hammers
January 10, 2011 – 6:57 pmIf you are new or if you have missed some days of new Camels With Hammers posts in the last half a year, thanks to some hard work from our webguy, Dave Smith, you can now check the “Dan’s Views” column on the left hand side of the site’s page and see a thoroughly updated [...]
Camels With Hammers Outage
January 4, 2011 – 3:06 pmI’d like to take a moment and apologize for the outage we’ve experienced over the past 24 hours. Our host was in the process of transitioning us to a new, more advanced data center, but the process didn’t go as smoothly as anticipated. It may take a few more hours for our new address to [...]
Introducing The “Today’s Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q)” Series
January 1, 2011 – 5:22 pmThis year I’ve decided to introduce what I hope will be a fruitful new (hopefully) daily dimension to the blog, what I am going to call “Today’s Open Philosophical Question” (which will be abbreviated as “TOP Q”), in which I pose a question for the readership about either an abstract or applied philosophical question. Sometimes [...]
Why Free Time Should Not Be Labeled “Optional”
December 24, 2010 – 2:47 pmLily reflects on her failures to reflect this summer: Whenever I’m extremely busy, free time is always the first thing to go. I hang onto sleep and food and cleanliness for as long as I can, but I had always seen free time as superfluous, expendable, and willingly sacrificed. That’s what I did this summer, [...]
The Return Of Camels With Hammers
December 24, 2010 – 10:18 amI’d like to extend my sincere gratitude and apologies to all of you who have continued to check in periodically to see if there are any updates, even as for a while there have been hardly any. This semester my schedule made blogging unusually difficult as I spent a full 28 hours a week commuting [...]
Happy Birthday To The Daily Dish
October 11, 2010 – 9:10 amAndrew Sullivan is celebrating his first ten years of blogging, which included helping to innovate the form way back in the year 2000. I’ve only been reading Andrew since Thanksgiving 2007 when his Atlantic article endorsing Obama blew my mind and sold me on Obama. By the fall of 2008, I was a Dish addict [...]
Welcome To The New Home Of Camels With Hammers! Take The Tour!
June 27, 2010 – 1:34 pmDave and I are ecstatic to be able to finally move to our new hosting service for the blog today. You won’t have to change any bookmarks or anything as the main page will still have the same address and all the old posts are still reachable by their old links. There are three major [...]
The End Of The Camels With Hammers Dark Ages
June 26, 2010 – 12:28 pmNo new posts today as I have been and will be bogged down with preparations for the blog’s formal move to our new host. There are a lot of things to take care of before tomorrow. Tomorrow ends the “dark ages” at Camels With Hammers as we abandon our black and orange scheme entirely for [...]
Camels With Hammers Turns 1 Year Old Today
June 22, 2010 – 11:01 pmTHANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of you who keep reading and who commenting on Camels With Hammers and who keep sharing links with your friends and with all sorts of social media sites. Running this blog over this past year and watching your support and enthusiasm for the blog grow has been [...]
Camels With Hammers Solicits Your Design Help!
June 14, 2010 – 11:07 pmSo, here’s the deal. We’re in the process of upgrading the site to improve the blog in a number of ways, hopefully by our year anniversary as “Camels With Hammers” (June 22). The most visible and obvious change coming is a total aesthetic redesign. Essentially, we’ll be turning on the lights and ditching all the [...]
Facebook With Camels With Hammers!
May 25, 2010 – 5:45 pmWe’re in the process of setting up the Camels With Hammers Facebook page to be a vibrant, regularly updating platform from which you can keep track of the new posts on the blog, get news and other messages specifically for fans, post links and photos which you think other Camels With Hammers readers might enjoy, interact with [...]
Regular Philosophy, Ethics, and Atheism Blogging To Resume In April
March 27, 2010 – 9:41 amLast week I submitted my dissertation to my adviser and my readers. This weekend I am tying up some remaining loose ends and preparing a 25 page summary version of the dissertation to submit to my examiner, a member of my committee who reads only this abbreviated version of the dissertation rather than the entire [...]
Regular Blogging Topics To Return Valentine's Day
January 16, 2010 – 3:41 pmHi everyone, I just want to take a quick moment to explain why we’re only running the top 366 favorite bands list of late and for the near future instead of dealing with the variety of topics and types of posts I normally do. Simply put, the dissertation is almost done and it needs my [...]
Camels With Hammers 2010: A Focus On Ethics, Rationalism, And My Favorite 366 Recording Artists
December 30, 2009 – 8:52 pmI want to take this moment to say thank you to everyone who has visited Camels With Hammers in 2009 and especially those of you who have made this site part of your regular internet reading. Your support has been extraordinarily appreciated. Seeing readership grow throughout the summer and fall months was a really gratifying [...]
Daily Hilarity: Taylor Swift’s Saturday Night Live Monologue Song: "Monologue (lalalala)"
November 9, 2009 – 9:23 pmSo on Saturday night, Taylor Swift went on SNL and performed a really funny song. (The video used to be in this post before NBC took it down from YouTube.) I was really impressed with her comic delivery in numerous respects. She really squeezes all the comedic juice out of a fairly by-the-numbers bit of [...]
Back In Blog
October 26, 2009 – 7:47 pmHey everyone! Sorry for doing much less original writing and letting some valuable reader comments pile up unaddressed over the last week. About this time last week I was overcome with lethargy which by the next day revealed itself to be the first onset of sickness. So, I blogged it easy last week while [...]
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