Saturday, October 29, 2016

How to go to hell

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How is it that anyone ever goes to hell?  How could a loving and merciful God send anyone there?  How could any sin be grave enough to...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Jackson on Popper on materialism

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While we’re on the subject of mind-body interaction, let’s take a look at Frank Jackson’s article on Karl Popper’s philosophy of mind...
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Nothing has changed

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Recently I announced my intention not to renew my membership in the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) in light of SCP President...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Swinburne speaks

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An update on the SCP controversy, about which I have blogged recently ( here , here , and here ).  I have been in communication with...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Latest from Oderberg

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David Oderberg’s new paper “Further clarity on cooperation and morality” appears in the Journal of Medical Ethics.   See also his gue...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

The MSM in four lines

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To win an election They ignore unwanted semen Yet demonize an erection While erecting a demon
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Goodbye SCP (Updated)

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It has been two weeks or so since the controversy over Richard Swinburne and the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP) erupted.  I’v...
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Secret crisis of infinite links

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New Scientist magazine opines that metaphysics has much to contribute to the study of nature .  Part of a special issue on the theme ...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Aquinas on consciousness

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My article “Aquinas and the problem of consciousness” appears in the anthology Consciousness and the Great Philosophers , edited by ...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Christina van Dyke owes Richard Swinburne her resignation

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Christina van Dyke is the Executive Director of the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP), whose President, Michael Rea, recently is...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

Robert P. George on capital punishment (Updated)

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Mark Shea and I have been debating Catholicism and capital punishment.  (See this post and this one for my side of the exchange and ...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

Michael Rea owes Richard Swinburne an apology

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Richard Swinburne, emeritus professor of philosophy at Oxford University, author of many highly influential books, and among the most ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

A further reply to Mark Shea

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At Catholic World Report , Mark Brumley comments on my exchange with Mark Shea concerning Catholicism and capital punishment.  Brumle...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Mind-body interaction: What’s the problem?

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Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) philosophers often argue that an advantage of their view of human nature over that of the Cartesian duali...
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Monday, September 12, 2016

Reply to Mark Shea on capital punishment

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Crisis magazine has reprinted the first of the two articles that political scientist Joseph Bessette and I recently wrote for Cathol...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Yeah, but is it actually actually infinite?

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In response to my recent post about William Lane Craig’s kalām cosmological argument, several readers noted that Craig has replied t...
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Friday, September 2, 2016

A difficulty for Craig’s kalām cosmological argument?

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Most versions of the cosmological argument , including those favored by Thomists, are not concerned with trying to show that the unive...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Learn it, live it, link it

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The Best Schools has posted its list of the 50 most influential living philosophers . New from R. R. Reno: Resurrecting the Idea...
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