Wednesday, October 28, 2009

StAR on TLS

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Jef Murray at the St. Austin Review kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the latest (November/December) issue. Some excerpts: A slam-du...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bill and Keith

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Yesterday, my old internet pal Keith Burgess-Jackson kindly linked to my recent post about my old internet pal Bill Vallicella’s post on c...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Copy editors and political correctness

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Bill Vallicella has some strong words for overzealous copy editors: “Keep your political correctness to yourself. Don't replace the gen...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Mao-Maoing the Beck watchers

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My apologies to Tom Wolfe . By now you’ve no doubt heard of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s jaw-dropping paean to mass-mur...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

…but not the 90s

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I can live with the Corey Hart comparison . But Vanilla Ice ?! Man, that is low …
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Thomistic tradition, Part II

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Concluding my overview of the main varieties of Thomism, with some final outtakes taken straight from the Aquinas cutting room floor : 6....
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Scruton mania [UPDATED]

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Roger Scruton is without a doubt the greatest living philosopher of conservatism. Apart from political philosophy and current affairs, he h...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Thomistic tradition, Part I

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I had originally intended to include in chapter 1 of Aquinas a brief overview of the history of Thomism. But as things turned out, the book...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Hank’s Pad

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“Wow, first the urbane smoothness of Steely Dan and then the freewheeling Big Band sound of the Swing Era. Gee, if only there were a way t...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Happy Columbus Day!

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“Columbus is ours” : The great Pope Leo XIII on the great Christopher Columbus, of happy memory. And here is a series of lectures by Fr. Jo...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Libertarian neutrality so-called

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John Rawls held that a liberal political order is neutral or impartial in three important senses: First, it treats persons as “ends in thems...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

In other news, Edward Feser has been awarded the Dawkins Prize…

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OK, I’ve finally stopped laughing . I see two good things coming out of this: 1. We now have an absolutely infallible test for determinin...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Warburton on the First Cause argument

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Bored while proctoring an exam today, I browsed through the desk drawer for something to read and found, among the other detritus of semeste...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

High IQ versus common sense?

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Why do highly intelligent people often lack common sense? Bruce Charlton , editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses , has some thoughts her...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Fossils and Frankenstein monsters

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One sometimes hears it said that studying the works of Thomists only distorts one’s understanding of Aquinas. “Read St. Thomas himself, and ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Four approaches to teleology

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In his fine book Aristotle , Christopher Shields usefully distinguishes Aristotle’s approach to teleology from two others. Teleological elim...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

The difference between McCarthyism and liberalism

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McCarthyite: someone who thinks there is a communist hiding under every bed Liberal: someone who thinks there is a McCarthyite hiding under ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Teleology revisited

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Over at his own blog, One Brow (who sometimes comments on this blog) responds to my recent post on the Wright-Coyne-Manzi debate. I apprec...
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