Bill Johnson

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What will the long term effect of social media and texting be upon future generations' ability to write?

About half of my students write fairly well. The other half, even after having been told that they are to adhere to standards of formal writing, and after having repeatedly experienced my...

28 March 2014 3,910 5 View

Solutions to invasive, green crabs off the coast of Maine?

In the State of Maine we are experiencing the slow change of a number of our marine habitats due to the proliferation of a non-native or exotic species, the Green Crab, or Carcinus Maenas. They...

11 February 2014 8,625 40 View

The death penalty and human dignity - what are your thoughts?

John Stuart Mill stated regarding the death penalty that, "I defend this penalty, when confined to atrocious cases, on the very ground on which it is commonly attacked—on that of humanity to the...

31 October 2013 6,190 12 View

Does contemporary religion tend to paint an unrealistic and one-sided picture of relationship with God?

In an interview in the back of her novel The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell makes this statement: "In our world, if people believe at all, they believe that God is love, God is hearts and flowers,...

28 August 2013 5,596 8 View

Does modal and counterfactual reasoning actually yield conclusions of significant value?

Do conclusions arrived at by way of modal and counterfactual reasoning, including supervenience arguments, speculations regarding possible worlds, and twin earth discussions, yield any ontological...

14 August 2013 1,247 10 View

Why has the concept of teleology made such a comeback in the sciences and social sciences in recent years?

Mark Perlman writes: "Teleology has certainly made a comeback in philosophical circles in the last thirty years. It went from a suspect or disreputable notion, ready for elimination, to the...

24 July 2013 6,827 10 View

Does the ban on deriving values from facts, "oughts" from "ises", still obtain as strongly as it did in the 20th Century?

To this day, David Hume’s famous statement regarding the impossibility of deducing values from facts by means of reason alone (Treatise, 3.1.1.27) is perceived by some as being a barrier against...

03 April 2013 9,119 41 View