Published debate record
7 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 82/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Michael Huemer vs Lance Bush: Do Objective Moral Facts Exist? · 2024
Huemer defended attitude-independent morality through semantic tests and intellectual appearances; Bush countered with contextual quietism, folk indeterminacy, and challenges to intuition’s public authority.
Michael Huemer: 85 · Lance Bush: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Mike Huemer vs Matt Lutz: Is Morality Real? · 2026
Huemer defends objective morality through evaluative judgment and defeasible appearances; Lutz counters with desire-based reasons, projectivism, and explanationist standards for knowledge.
Michael Huemer: 88 · Matt Lutz: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Swinburne vs Michael Huemer: Is Theism Coherent? · 2026
Swinburne defends coherent maximal attributes through logical possibility and doctrinal distinctions; Huemer presses quantitative infinity, residual knowledge, temporal conflict, and supertask objections.
Richard Swinburne: 75 · Michael Huemer: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Robert Sapolsky: Does Free Will Exist—and Does It Matter? · 2024
Huemer challenges the leap from pervasive causal influence to determination, while Sapolsky explains mechanistic change and presses a humane rejection of retributive desert.
Michael Huemer: 83 · Robert Sapolsky: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Graham Oppy: Do Souls Exist? · 2022
Huemer argues that irreducible mentality requires a surviving soul, while Oppy offers multiscale naturalism, brain dependence, and cosmological objections to that inference.
Michael Huemer: 76 · Graham Oppy: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Huemer vs Joshua Rasmussen: Does God Exist? · 2026
Rasmussen advances a cumulative explanatory case for God, while Huemer presses competing finite-creator, multiverse, infinity, and evidential suffering objections.
Josh Rasmussen: 77 · Michael Huemer: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is Moral Realism Better Supported? Michael Huemer vs. Don Loeb · 2022
Huemer’s intuitive and convergence-based realism met Loeb’s semantic, explanatory, and practical alternatives; mixed evidence narrowly left anti-realism at least equally plausible.
Michael Huemer: 80 · Don Loeb: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.