Saturday, February 28, 2009

J. L. Austin and conservatism

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Given my recent posts on tradition and on the early modern philosophers’ transformation of traditional philosophical vocabulary, it seems ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

TLS radio podcast

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The podcast of my interview on The Jeff Whitaker Show from last Thursday is now available for your listening pleasure. My segment begins ...

Tone deaf

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Bill Vallicella gets email from a reader who, to quote one of the Geico cavemen , is “not 100% in love with [my] tone” in The Last Supersti...
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Ashes to Ashes

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Today is Ash Wednesday. National Review Online has posted a symposium on the meaning of Lent, to which I have made a brief contribution.
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Oderberg's Real Essentialism

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I have recommended David Oderberg's excellent recent book Real Essentialism to anyone interested in a detailed and rigorous exposition...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wiley-Blackwell responds

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In response to my second National Review Online piece on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy, Wiley-Blackwell represent...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Conservatives and tradition

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A left-of-center friend of mine recently complained to me that conservatives are “guilty of appealing to tradition when it suits [them], and...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

TLS on radio

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New Jersey readers and podcast listeners everywhere might be interested to know that I will be on The Jeff Whitaker Show Thursday at about ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

More on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy

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I have a follow-up piece posted today at NRO’s The Corner. Inside Higher Ed ran an article on the story yesterday. It seems to me that ...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Brin on conspiracy theories

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Science fiction writer David Brin offers some sympathetic criticism of my recent piece “The Trouble With Conspiracy Theories” (originally p...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

‘Too Christian’ for academia?

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Here is a piece I wrote for National Review Online about the political correctness controversy brewing over Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Newspeak of the moderns

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In 1642, the Senate of the University of Utrecht issued a condemnation of the new Cartesian philosophy, which was intended by Descartes to r...
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Aristotle and Frege on thought

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For reasons explained in a couple of earlier posts ( here and here ) the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition regards the intellect as a distin...
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Monday, February 2, 2009

Quine as a conservative

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For newer readers and others who might be interested, I will occasionally be reprinting some old posts from the now defunct Conservative Phi...
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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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