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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Panpsychism (Pt. I)

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Philosopher Philip Goff has an interesting article at Aeon in which he considers three possible explanations for the remarkable fine-tuning...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

For Valentine's Day

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A number of years ago I wrote a post on C.S. Lewis' book titled Four Loves because I enjoyed especially his treatment of friendship. H...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Naturalism and Reason

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Human reason poses an interesting problem for metaphysical naturalists of both a modern and a postmodern inclination. Metaphysical naturalis...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Plato's Cave for Modern Man

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Imagine that the year is 2030 and computer technology has advanced to the point where a sufficiently clever programmer (you, for example) ca...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Dr. Nassar and Objective Moral Wrong

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The recent publicity surrounding Dr. Larry Nassar, the man who has been recently convicted of sexually abusing dozens of young female gymna...
Friday, February 9, 2018

How Fish Know

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Ever wonder how spawning fish can return to the precise stream from which they emigrated years before? It's an astonishing feat made pos...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Not with the Program

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If there were an award for defeating your own argument while adamantly affirming it the man featured in this video would surely be a candid...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

We Are Not a Sim

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Michael Egnor argues that computers simply compute, they do computations in which keystroke inputs are mapped to outputs expressed on the s...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Why the Universe Can't be Temporally Infinite

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The standard model of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang model, implies that space, time and energy, the constituents of the universe,...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Premoderns and Postmoderns Pt. III

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This is the third in the series of reflections on Joseph Bottum's essay titled Christians and Postmoderns . Scroll down for the two prev...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Premoderns and Postmoderns Pt. II

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I'd like to continue our look at the First Things essay (Christians and Postmoderns) by Joseph Bottum that I began yesterday . Bott...
Friday, February 2, 2018

Premoderns and Postmoderns Pt. I

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Having just this week finished talking about the philosophical distinctions between premodern, modern, and postmodern worldviews in my class...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

A Couple of Thoughts on the SOTU

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Here are a couple of thoughts I had watching President Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday night: President Trump announced his ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Various Views

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Yesterday's post addressed the topic of what kind of theory intelligent design is and whether it's guilty of the "god of the ga...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

God of the Gaps

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In debates over how best to account for the fine-tuning of the universe, the origin of life, the origin of life's major taxa and the ori...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Why People Don't Trust Them

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Here are two examples - out of the many which could be cited - of the sort of media bias that has caused a lot of folks today to distrust, a...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

What the Crusades Were Not

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It's common to hear people cite the Crusades as a terrible debacle and a stain on the history of Christian Europe, and while there defi...
Friday, January 26, 2018

The Spectre of Meaninglessness

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Las Vegas police have declared that the motives of Stephen Paddock, the man who slaughtered 58 people and wounded hundreds of others at a co...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Two Intellectual Virtues

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One of my favorite works in philosophy is a book by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) titled On Liberty . Throughout this...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Multiverse Metaphysics

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Mention of the multiverse hypothesis came up in some of my classes this week in the course of a discussion of the difference between metaphy...