Monday, September 29, 2008

Vallicella on intentionality and potentiality

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Over at Maverick Philosopher , Bill Vallicella takes note of some important analogies between, on the one hand, the potentialities and disp...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Free speech in Los Angeles?

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Not if "progressive" vandals, and the city government, have anything to say about it, according to this story. I live not too far...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Some brief arguments for dualism, Part II

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Following Aristotle, the Scholastic tradition famously held that final causes – goal-directedness, purposiveness, natural ends – permeate th...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Some brief arguments for dualism, Part I

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It is unreasonable to expect even the best argument for a controversial philosophical position to be capable, in one fell swoop and all by i...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Philosophy and polemics

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Readers of The Last Superstition will find that it is as polemical as it is philosophical. But shouldn't philosophy be non-polemical? ...
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Don't have enough to read?

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For those readers who might be interested, archives of many of my past articles, posts to the now defunct group blogs Conservative Philosoph...

Pre-Socratic natural theology

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Western philosophy begins with the Pre-Socratics. So too did my own interest in philosophy, which was sparked by an encounter with Thales, H...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

The Last Superstition

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I am pleased to announce that my book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism will be published this October by St. Augustin...
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SPPC conference on Ownership and Justice

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I will be presenting a paper on "Classical Natural Law Theory, Property Rights, and Taxation" at the conference on Ownership and J...
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