Friday, January 30, 2009

Steele on conspiracy theories

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OK, one more post on conspiracy theories, and then I’m done with them for a while. Here is an important article by David Ramsay Steele on ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Another conspiracy?

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Caught The China Syndrome , the 1979 nuclear power plant disaster movie, on TV tonight. A character in the movie says that a nuclear meltdow...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

The trouble with conspiracy theories

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People who think the U.S. government was complicit in 9/11 or in the JFK assassination sometimes complain that those who dismiss them as “co...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Behe blackballed at Borders?

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Notwithstanding my deep philosophical disagreements with ID theorists (familiar to readers of The Last Superstition ), I do respect many of ...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Purely academic

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In his recent book Save the World on Your Own Time , Stanley Fish tells his fellow academics to shut up and teach, and stop politicizing the...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Change you can believe in

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No, I don’t mean that nonsense. I mean something I came across while doing some vanity Googling . Here is an atheist blogger who appears ...
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Apologia pro George W. Bush

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Andrew Roberts summarizes the case for the defense. Power Line offers a balanced assessment . National Review recently devoted a fine spec...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Walters on TLS

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JD Walters of the blog Unnatural Theology kindly reviews The Last Superstition . (The review is cross-posted at CADRE Comments .) He says ...
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Vallicella on Rand

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Caught the end of The Passion of Ayn Rand on TV last night, and awoke this morning to find the esteemed Bill Vallicella giving the old girl...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Computers, minds, and Aristotle

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The recently published Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions , edited by Luciano Floridi, is a collection of quasi-interviews...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The critics’ choice

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I am pleased to announce that, having already given it a starred review in their October issue, the American Library Association's Bookl...
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America, empire, and conservatism

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The label “empire” is often applied to the United States as an epithet, not only by left-wingers but also by paleoconservatives. But imperia...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Metaphysics of the Martini

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Since it is New Years Eve, it seemed appropriate to reprint this September 2006 post from the late, lamented Right Reason blog. (The origina...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Coffey's Ontology

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Readers sometimes ask me to recommend a general introduction to Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics. Unfortunately, the best such works are ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Warby on Philosophy of Mind

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Over at the online edition of Australia's Quadrant magazine, Michael Warby kindly reviews my book Philosophy of Mind . As Warby notes,...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Some Christmas reading

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During the Neo-Scholastic period prior to Vatican II, Fr. Joseph Pohle produced a widely used series of textbooks on theology, which were tr...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mindreading?

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Ars Technica reports the following development in neuroscience (Hat tip: The Corner ): The advent of techniques like PET scans and functio...
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