Saturday, October 27, 2012

Nagel and his critics, Part II

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Whereas my First Things review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos accentuated the positive, the first post in this series put forwa...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Charles De Koninck Project

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Philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906 - 1965) was one of the leading figures in the Laval or River Forest tradition within 20 th centu...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Nagel and his critics, Part I

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Thomas Nagel’s new book Mind and Cosmos , which I reviewed favorably for First Things , has gotten some less favorable responses as w...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

TLS auf Deutsch

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I am pleased to announce that Editiones scholasticae has released a German translation of The Last Superstition , under the title De...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos

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Over at the online edition of First Things , you’ll find my review of Thomas Nagel’s important new book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Mate...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Is [the] God [of classical theism] dead?

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Is God dead?  I’m not asking a Nietzschean question about the fortunes of the idea of God in modern Western culture.  I’m asking wheth...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Separated at birth?

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Existentialist (and Danish philosopher) Søren Kierkegaard and rhythmatist (and Police drummer) Stewart Copeland.  Looks like they ev...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Whose nature? Which law?

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You’ve got your natural law .  You’ve got your natural rights .  You’ve got the state of nature .  Then there’s naturalism .  And laws...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Who wants to be an atheist?

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Suppose something like Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods ? hypothesis turned out to be true, and the God of the Bible was real...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Avengers and classical theism

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Watched The Avengers again on Blu-ray the other night.  In a movie full of good lines, a few stand out for (of all things) their theo...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Was Aquinas a dualist?

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At the start of chapter 4 of Aquinas (the chapter on “Psychology”), I wrote: As I have emphasized throughout this book, understan...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

New Scholastic Meets Analytic Philosophy

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Lindenthal-Institut in cooperation with the publisher Ontos Verlag announces an international colloquium on the theme “New Scholastic ...
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