Saturday, February 20, 2016

Around the web

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Busy, busy couple of weeks.  So, I’ll let others do the writing.  Here’s a large load of links: David Oderberg on the current sta...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Review of Alexander

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My review of David Alexander’s Goodness, God, and Evil appears in the March 2016 issue of Ratio .  It looks like the review is curren...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Aquinas, Vanilla Sky, and Nozick’s experience machine

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I’ve been meaning for about fifteen years now to write up something on the movie Vanilla Sky (a remake of Open Your Eyes ).  It’s a b...
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Friday, February 5, 2016

Parfit on brute facts

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Derek Parfit’s article “The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist?” has been reprinted several times since it first appeared...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Debased Coynage

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I had a lot to say about Jerry Coyne’s Faith versus Fact in my First Things review of the book , but much more could be said.  The r...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Upcoming Thomistic workshops

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Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, and thus a good time to draw attention to several forthcoming Aquinas-related summer wor...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Review of Coyne

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In the February 2016 issue of First Things , I review Jerry Coyne’s Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatibl...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

Islam, Christianity, and liberalism again (Updated)

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Hope you won’t mind submitting to one more post on Islam (the last for a while, I hope).  What follows are some comments on some of th...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Liberalism and Islam

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Note: What follows is pretty long, especially if you think of it as a blog post.  So think of it instead as an article.  The topic doe...
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Sunday, January 3, 2016

Canine theology

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In Western culture, the dog is often described as “man’s best friend,” and in Western art, the dog is often used as a symbol for faith...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Christians, Muslims, and the reference of “God”

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The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God has become the topic du jour in certain parts of the blogosphere. ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Goodill on Scholastic Metaphysics and Wittgenstein

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In the January 2016 issue of New Blackfriars , David Goodill reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics .  From the review: Feser[‘s...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Yuletide links

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End-of-semester grading, Christmas shopping, and the like leave little time for substantive blogging.  So for the moment I’ll leave th...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

Should a Catholic vote for Ben Carson?

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During the second Republican presidential candidates debate in September, Ben Carson said that instead of invading Afghanistan after ...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

In Defence of Scholasticism

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My article “In Defence of Scholasticism” appears in the 2015 issue of The Venerabile (the cover of which is at left), which is publis...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Telegraph on Scholastic Metaphysics

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At The Daily Telegraph , Christopher Howse kindly calls attention to my book Scholastic Metaphysics , which he describes as follows: ...
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