Announcing appearances, publications, and analysis of questions historical, philosophical, and political by author, philosopher, and historian Richard Carrier.
Everyone knows I think AI is garbage and should never be trusted to do the work for you. You always have to Do Your Own Research for real to ensure AI hasn’t conned you or left things out or misstated things. Think of it as a sketchy high school dropout on weed and act accordingly. […] The post AI Says Tomi Lahren Is an Idiot: A Critical Thinking Exercise appeared first on Richard Carrier Blogs .
I just published a major new article in a peer-reviewed journal, the Canadian-American Theological Review: “Did Any Pre-Christian Jews Expect a Dying-and-Rising Messiah?” It will be the lead article in vol. 14, their delayed 2025 issue (print copies are going out to that journal’s subscribers in a few weeks, and digital versions will be available […] The post New Journal Publication on Jewish…
Today I review for you the top three handbooks in ancient science and technology. There are others, but they either suck or are amazing but out of print. These three are must-haves for any enthusiast. Two I used a lot in my own books on ancient science, and the third is new, but I very […] The post Top Three Handbooks of Ancient Science & Technology appeared first on Richard Carrier Blogs .
Recently, Than Christopoulos produced a silly and absurdly wordy insistence that Bayes’ Theorem proves Jesus rose from the dead in Paulogia…It’s Time To Stop. I was recently interviewed about this on Modern Atheism (you can watch that here) and as promised I am here writing up the main issues. Christopoulos frames this as a response […] The post Why Christians Are So Bad at This: Paulogia vs.…
I am near to completing my forthcoming rewrite of Sense and Goodness without God (which I will be retiring soon, so if you want to collect the original edition before it goes out of print, better get it now!). And one of the things I am doing is removing things that have gone out of […] The post Prophecy and History: Some Pointers appeared first on Richard Carrier Blogs .
My website’s category dropdown menu includes many social justice issues like racism, sexism, ableism, classism, privilege, feminism and men’s issues, gender and transgenderism, gay pride, culture, environment, polyamory, etc. And to understand why, the National Association of Social Workers has the best introductory explanation of what social justice is and why it’s important that I’ve […] The…
While my Three Recommendations in Godless Epistemology were of books I added to my Recommendations in Philosophy list, I wanted to post three more recommendations that veer too far to be suited to that particular list for reasons I explained last time: I don’t include philosophy of religion (“atheism,” “counter-apologetics,” and the like) on my […] The post Recommending Another Loftus Trilogy in…
You surely noticed men getting all angry recently that women were reporting they’d rather be found alone with a wild bear than a random man. The men are pretty much in the wrong there. Multiple converging studies suggest between an tenth and a sixth of men are (actually are) rapists, and between a quarter and […] The post Men Are More Dangerous Than a Bear but Not 95.1% Dangerous appeared first on…
In this article I will explain (1) why almost all videos suck, (2) why I will usually only watch videos if you pay me to, (3) what the few exceptions are to all that, (4) and what a good video actually worth the bother of watching looks like (with examples!). Which may help you pick […] The post Why Almost All Videos Suck, How to Make Them Better, and What I Charge Now to Critique Them appeared…
How much have we lost? That’s a question I get asked a lot. I have often ballparked it at over 99%. But I decided to dig in to some real numbers to see what percentage can actually be backed by evidence. And I found we can actually calculate, by multiple converging lines of evidence, that […] The post How Many Ancient Books Did the Christians Throw Away? appeared first on Richard Carrier Blogs .