Saturday, May 30, 2009

Book of the Year

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I’ve just learned that The Last Superstition has been named the Book of the Year in Religion by ForeWord Magazine . (I had reported on its...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Woods on TLS

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In the latest issue of Catholic World Report , Thomas Woods kindly reviews The Last Superstition . From the review: “A crushing reply to th...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Francks on Scholasticism

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For you Last Superstition readers eager for further exploration of the superficiality of modern thinkers’ criticisms of the Aristotelian-Sc...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

NCRegister on TLS

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The National Catholic Register kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the May 31 – June 6 issue. From the review: “If you understand Aris...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Happy Birthday

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My wife gave birth last night to John Henry Feser (our fifth child). So, posting will be light for a little while. Cigars all around, fell...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Oderberg’s Real Essentialism

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David Oderberg announces that his recent book Real Essentialism will be available later this year in paperback. This will be welcome news ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Davidson’s anomalous monism

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Donald Davidson’s article “Mental Events” is widely considered a classic of twentieth-century philosophy of mind, and for good reason. It co...
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Strawson on the categorical and the dispositional

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Philosopher’s Digest is a new online review, offering brief summaries of current journal articles in philosophy with the aim of allowing ph...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Stove Award competition heats up!

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How do we know that Francis Beckwith is not an Intelligent Design theorist? Well, first of all, because he has publicly said that he isn’t ....
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Act and potency

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James Chastek of Just Thomism suggests : “A thomist could probably teach the whole history of modern thought as an overlooking of the distin...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Eric Mack on John Locke

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Libertarian philosopher Eric Mack is for my money one of the most interesting rights theorists writing today. To anyone who has read my own...
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

“It’s just so obvious!”: The case of torture

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Over at What’s Wrong with the World, my esteemed co-blogger Zippy Catholic and others have been debating the morality of waterboarding, Cath...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

TLS on radio

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Here you can find an archive of my interview Thursday night on The Jim Bohannon Show regarding The Last Superstition . It begins roughly ...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

It’s just so obvious!

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Suppose you were a late nineteenth/early twentieth-century British Idealist. In particular, suppose you were Bernard Bosanquet. You’d have h...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The interaction problem, Part II

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In an earlier post , I suggested that one of the advantages of hylemorphic dualism over Cartesian dualism is that its notion of formal causa...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

TLS on radio

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Some more upcoming radio interviews about The Last Superstition : I will be appearing on The Bob Dutko Show this Wednesday (the 22nd) at ar...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Spinoza on final causes

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Among the central themes of The Last Superstition is that final causality – teleology, purpose, or goal-directedness – is as objective a fe...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

TLS radio podcast

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My recent interview on The James Allen Show is now available for your listening pleasure. Go here and follow the relevant link.
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Descartes’ “clear and distinct perception” argument

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The “clear and distinct perception” argument is one of two arguments for mind-body dualism Descartes gives in the sixth of his famous Medita...
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More on the APA petition controversy

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Keith Pavlischek, who has been reporting on the APA petition controversy for First Things , has the latest developments here . (And see t...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

TLS on radio

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Arizona readers and podcast listeners everywhere might be interested to know that I will be on The James Allen Show this Saturday (April 11...
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Monday, April 6, 2009

Down with Feezer!

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My What’s Wrong with the World co-blogger Steve Burton alerts me to a YouTube response to his commercial for The Last Superstition . Steve...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Give me that old time atheism

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Last night I was dipping into Roy Abraham Varghese’s Great Thinkers on Great Questions , an interesting collection of interviews with a numb...
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