Saturday, June 29, 2013

Extraordinarily ordinary

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There are no such things as tables, only “particles arranged tablewise.”  Or so say certain contemporary metaphysicians, who in the na...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Geach on worshipping the right God

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In his essay “On Worshipping the Right God” (available in his collection God and the Soul ), Catholic philosopher Peter Geach argues t...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

Mind and Cosmos roundup

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My series of posts on the critics of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos has gotten a fair amount of attention.  Andrew Ferguson’s cover s...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Nagel and his critics, Part X

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It’s time at long last to bring my series of posts on the critics of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos to a close, before it becomes a ...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Body movin’, mind thinkin’

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations We recall that John...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Naturalism in the news

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On the subject of naturalism, Raymond Tallis opines in The Guardian , Massimo Pigliucci reports at Philosophy Now , and Daniel Dennett...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Mackie’s argument from queerness

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In his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong , J. L. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivit...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Hugon’s Cosmology

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Editiones scholasticae is publishing an English translation of Cosmology , an important manual written by the Thomist philosopher an...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Avicenna’s argument from contingency, Part I

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The medieval Islamic philosopher Ibn Sina or Avicenna (c. 980 - 1037) is one among that myriad of thinkers of genius unjustly neglect...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Neither nature alone nor grace alone

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Since therefore grace does not destroy nature but perfects it, natural reason should minister to faith as the natural bent of the will...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Nagel and his critics, Part IX

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Returning to my series on the critics of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos , let’s look at the recent Commonweal magazine symposium on...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Commonweal on Nagel

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Commonweal magazine has published a symposium on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos , to which physicist Stephen Barr, biologist Kenneth Mil...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Context isn’t everything

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Natural law theory holds that a large and substantive body of moral knowledge can be had apart from divine revelation.  Natural theolo...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Epstein on conspiracies

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No one denies that conspiracies exist.  They occur every time two thugs decide to rob a liquor store together.  When people dismiss “c...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

The theology of Prometheus

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I’m afraid I’m very much a latecomer to the pretentious commentary party vis-à-vis Ridley Scott’s Prometheus , since I only saw the fl...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Discerning the thoughts and intents of Hart

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David Bentley Hart’s recent reply to me (to which I responded here ) was not his only rejoinder to his critics.   In the Letters sect...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Around the web

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Metaphysician E. J. Lowe discusses ontology, physics, Locke, Aristotle, logic, laws of nature, potency and act, dualism, science ficti...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Sheer Hart attack

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In a widely discussed piece in the March issue of First Things , theologian David Bentley Hart was highly critical of natural law the...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

What is an ad hominem fallacy?

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As students of logic know, not every appeal to authority is a fallacious appeal to authority.  A fallacy is committed only when the p...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Craig on theistic personalism

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Someone posted the following clip at YouTube, in which William Lane Craig is asked about me and about his view of the dispute between class...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

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I am pleased to announce that Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics , an anthology I have edited for Palgrave Macmillan’s Philosophers i...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Philosophy on radio

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The other day I was interviewed by Frank Turek for his show CrossExamined .  The show will be broadcast tomorrow, Saturday April 6, at...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Reply to Kozinski

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I’ve been meaning to write up a response to Thaddeus Kozinski’s post at Ethika Politika criticizing my recent piece on David Bentley...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Nagel and his critics, Part VIII

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Resuming our series on the serious critics of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos , let’s turn to Simon Blackburn’s review in New Statesma...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Rosenhouse keeps digging

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Here’s a conversation that might occur between grown-ups: Grown-up #1: I haven’t read Nagel’s book or much of the positive commen...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

EvolutionBlog needs better Nagel critics

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EvolutionBlog’s Jason Rosenhouse tells us in a recent post that he hasn’t read philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos .  And it s...
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