Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Fifty shades of nothing

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Note: The following article is cross-posted over at First Things . Nothing is all the rage of late.  Physicists Stephen Hawking ...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Review of George

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My review of Robert P. George’s recent book Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism appears in the ...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Hart stopping

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In the August/September issue of First Things , David Bentley Hart gives us what he promises is his last word on the controversy gene...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

NNLT in NCBQ

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The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center , has just put out a special issue on ...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Maudlin on time and the fundamentality of physics

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Philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin is interviewed at 3:AM Magazine .  (I commented on an earlier interview with Maudlin in a previous ...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Avicenna’s argument from contingency, Part II

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In a previous post we looked at an outline of Avicenna’s argument from contingency for a Necessary Existent.  Suppose the argument do...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

He refutes you thus

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In the photo at left, Justice Anthony Kennedy presents his considered response to Plato’s Laws , Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles , Kan...
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Cash for Cajuns

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You might recall that Our Lady of Wisdom Church and Catholic Student Center in Lafayette, Louisiana kindly hosted me for a lecture ba...
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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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