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Canada Goose sale Can philosophy or religion alone establish facts?About two weeks ago I discussed an article in the Guardian by Keith Ward. Ward assertion was in the title of canada goose outlet shop his piece,”Religion answers the factual canada goose outlet winnipeg questions science neglects and I questioned Ward contention that faith or other non empirical could establish facts canada goose outlet 80 off about the world or universe. Those facts, I contended, could be established only by science construed, that is, via reason and empirical observation:I challenge Ward to give me just one reasonably well established fact about the world that comes from “general philosophical views, moral views, personal experience and judgment”without any verifiable empirical input.Now I didn contact Ward to issue this challenge directly. Perhaps I should have, but I was really asking my readers to think of responses. Now, over at Talking Philosophy, Jim P. Houston takes me to task for not asking Ward directly he calls my failure to do so shabby took the liberty of asking Ward himself. Z. Myers?),and even implies that I was intellectually dishonest by not contacting Ward directly (really, did Hitchens write to all religious leaders asking them to produce an altruistic act that only believers could have committed?). Nor does Houston provide his own answer to the question, for he more concerned with showing me up than canada goose outlet store toronto with tackling the substantive question. More important, however, is that Houston gives Ward response, which I quote in full:I have been told that Jerry Coyne has challenged me to cite a “reasonably well established fact about the world” that has no “verifiable canada goose coats uk empirical input”. That is not a claim I have ever made, or ever would make.What I do claim is not so controversial, namely, that many factual claims about the world are reasonably believed canada goose outlet toronto address or even known to be true, even when there is canada goose uk site no way in which any established science (a discipline a Fellow of the Royal Society would recognise as a natural science) canada goose outlet near me could establish canada goose outlet that they are true or false.Here is an example: my father worked as a double agent for MI6 and the KGB during the “Cold War”. He told canada goose outlet new york me this on his death bed, in view of the fact that I had once seen him kill a man. The Section of which he was canada goose shop uk a member was disbanded and all record of it expunged, and all those who knew that he was a member of it had long since died. This is certainly a factual claim. If true, he certainly knew that it was true. I reasonably believe that it is true. But there is absolutely no way of empirically verifying or falsifying it. QED.The possible response canada goose outlet online uk that canada goose outlet canada someone could have verified it if they had been there and seen it is one that A. J. When, in my Guardian piece, I described the resurrection as a ‘hard fact’, I naturally did not mean that it would convince everyone. I meant that it entails some empirical factual claims (so it is not just subjective or fictional). But those claims are not verifiable by any known scientific or historical means.Jerry Coyne and I seem to have different views about this, but neither of us have access to direct empirical evidence. We https://www.canadagoosejacketsoutsale.com both think some empirical claims are relevant to our assessment of such claims. But as Ayer said, the concept of “relevance” is so vague that it does not settle any real argument.”There it is.” concludes Ward: “It is interesting (and slightly depressing) that readers can exaggerate claims beyond any reasonable canada goose outlet in uk limits, so that they become ‘straw men’, easily demolished. Closer attention to exactly what is said, and to the long philosophical series canada goose outlet eu of debates about verification on which subject Ayer wholly recanted his famous espousal of the verification principle might prevent such an ‘easy’ way with philosophical questions which are both profound and difficult.”If that the best that Ward can do, then I canada goose outlet washington dc claim victory. A is not a fact if all the evidence supporting it has vanished or is inaccessible. It the same as my baby sister claim that my father (whom she worshipped) could fly if he wanted to, but simply doesn want to. and Houston should know better: a claim is not a unless there is evidence to support it. It is a claim that some people have seen fairies, or that the Loch Ness Monster swims in canada goose outlet phone number the vasty deep. But empirical investigation hasn supported these assertions. Think of all the factual claims made by those who are delusional, or mentally ill!In science, there are plenty of claims that don turn out to be facts. canada goose kensington parka uk Cold fusion is one, the claim that bacteria cause cancer (for which a Nobel prize was awarded) is another. That why factual claims require verification, and why string theory, which also makes factual claims, is still in the hinternland of facthood: there no way we yet discovered to test those claims.I repeat again for philosophers like Ward and Houston: factual claims are not facts. It is possible that Ward father canada goose outlet ontario was a double agent, but I won accept its truth until there are independent ways to show that.Increasingly, I find philosophers like Houston presenting claims of theologians like Ward sympathetically. canada goose outlet price It almost as if there a bifurcating family tree of thought, with philosophers and theologians as sister taxa, and scientists as the outgroup. That seems strange to me, as I understood that most philosophers are atheists. I not clear why I attracting increasing opprobrium from philosophers, though one reason may be their irritation that I am encroaching on their territory.Back canada goose sale uk in the old days of the Greeks, philosophy was supposed to be part of a well rounded life; now any scientist who engages in the practice is criticized for treading on the turf canada goose outlet mall of canada goose victoria parka outlet professional academic philosophers. Suck it up, I say to these miscreants.And I invite readers canada goose outlet germany again to give me just one reasonably well established fact about the world that comes from “general philosophical views, moral views, personal experience and judgment”without any verifiable empirical input. By all means, ask your friends in philosophy and theology!Calling Keith Ward a philosopher rather than a theologian seems to be stretching the term badly. Houston, I haven the slightest idea who this person is. Does he hold any canada goose outlet black friday sale academic position anywhere?The thing I find really irritating is that no one would take it seriously if Ken Ham described himself as a biologist, and nobody would make sweeping statements about biology on that basis, but people regularly do so about philosophy.The problem is assuming philosophical intuition is a black box that reveals accurate truth, rather than something that can itself be analysed as the product of human cognitive biases.Dennett goes on about canada goose outlet black friday this sort of thing quite a bit. It one of the known problems with intuition pumps.The problem is that our philosophical intuition is what we actually canada goose outlet uk fake use to analyse these things. However, we can compare its results to ahahaha the real world, and thus reveal its flaws in a way that we can see. And, hopefully, compensate for.(Links are to RationalWiki articles I worked on trying to explain these things from a sceptic perspective.)I didn’t contact Ward to issue this challenge directly. Perhaps I should have You should have.I was really asking my readers to think of responses. that is what you should have said.Alernatively you could have said would challenge Ward but or better still, don challenge Ward took liberty of giving a man the right to reply. I didn present his arguments any more nfavourably than I did yours. I witheld from criticising the substance of your arguments. I only had objection to you saying that you were issuing a challenge when you hadn the courtesy to inform the man you said you were challenging Canada Goose sale.