Monday, June 29, 2009

Richard’s Holiday Camp

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New Atheists like Richard Dawkins feign outrage at any suggestion that their creed itself amounts to a kind of religion – even as (for examp...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The materialist shell game

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Materialists sometimes argue that the mind is bound to succumb to naturalistic explanation, because everything else has. How could it be the...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Empiricism versus Aristotelianism

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In my previous post, I noted how empiricists and Aristotelians differ over the relationship between intellect and imagination, and that this...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Hume, science, and religion

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Suppose you buy Hume’s famous analysis of causation, and thus deny that we can have any knowledge of objective causal connections in nature ...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

You can’t make this stuff up, folks

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The Leiter reader who parroted (and still parrots) the “apologist for murder” libel against me is awfully upset because, with some mild sar...
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Farrell Multimedia

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John Farrell , whose review of TLS I linked to below , discusses his book The Day Without Yesterday . (HT: Siris )
Thursday, June 11, 2009

But seriously, ladies and degenerates…

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From the new Sacha Baron Cohen laugh-fest Bruno (per Drudge ): In one scene Bruno appears on a talk show holding a baby who is wearing a T-...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Who may punish the guilty?

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Was it wrong to shoot Tiller? Yes, yes, yes, I have said, repeatedly and unambiguously. But here’s yet another guy who simply will not take...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Trinity Sunday

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And now, dear friends, let us elevate our minds to higher and nobler things. Today is Trinity Sunday. We Christians worship one God in Trini...
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Zmirak on Tiller

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Here is a fine piece by John Zmirak on why (a) Tiller was a murderous monster and (b) killing abortionists nevertheless cannot be morally j...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

Leiter hits new low. In other news, sky is blue, water wet…

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In response to the recent shooting of George Tiller, I wrote that “vigilantism is a grave offense against the moral and social order,” that...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Envoy Institute conference

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Readers in the vicinity of Charlotte, NC might be interested to learn that the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College will be hosting a t...
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Dueling bloggers

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History professor and blogger Hugo Schwyzer is a colleague of mine at Pasadena City College. He is the son of the late philosopher Hubert S...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Farrell on TLS

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The esteemed John Farrell, author, filmmaker, blogger, and occasional commenter here at my own humble blog, kindly reviews The Last Superst...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Two monsters

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On November 28, 1994, notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in prison by a fellow inmate. Unspeakably heinous though Dahmer’s ...
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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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