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Letters, I get letters
It’s time, I think, to repeat something I’ve said before. I get lots of reader feedback -- in the form of emails, combox remarks, letters, and so forth -- and (apart from the scribblings of the...
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Nagel and his critics, Part III
In the previous installment in this series of posts on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, I looked at some objections to Nagel raised by Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg. I want now to turn to Elliot...
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Cardinal virtues and counterfeit virtues
The cardinal virtues are wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. They are so called because they are traditionally regarded as the “hinge” (cardo) on which the rest of morality turns. We find them...
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Nagel and his critics, Part IV
Continuing our look at the critics of Thomas Nagel’s recent book Mind and Cosmos, we turn to philosopher Alva Noë’s very interesting remarks over at NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos & Culture blog. Noë’s...
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Gonzaga lectures online
Back in February of 2011, I gave a pair of lectures at the Faith and Reason Institute at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. I had no idea until just the other day that the lectures are available on...
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Haldane on Aquinas, Anscombe, and much else
3:AM Magazine has posted a long and highly substantive interview with Analytical Thomist philosopher John Haldane. Lots of interesting stuff in it, so give it a read. (The discussion of idealism in...
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Review of Gazzaniga
My review of Michael Gazzaniga’s recent book Who’s In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain appears in the Fall 2012 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
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Nagel and his critics, Part V
Our look at the critics of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos brings us now to philosopher of science John Dupré, whose review of the book appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. The review is...
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Claremont Christmas Reading
The Claremont Institute has posted its annual recommended Christmas reading list, to which I’ve contributed. You can read my recommendations here.On that subject, reader Will Knowland has made a list...
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Nagel and his critics, Part VI
We’ve been looking at the critics of Thomas Nagel’s recent book Mind and Cosmos. Having examined the objections raised by Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg, Elliott Sober, Alva Noë, and John Dupré, I...
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Trabbic on TLS
Philosopher Joseph Trabbic kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the latest issue of theSaint Austin Review. From the review:[This] is no ordinary book of apologetics. Edward Feser is a...
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Aquinas versus Newton?
Does Newton’s law of inertia undermine Aquinas’s First Way? The short answer is No. I gave a longer answer at pp. 76-79 of Aquinas. I give a much longer answer still in my paper “The Medieval...
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Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar
Readers in England might be interested to know that on February 14 I will be speaking at Blackfriars, Oxford University, as part of the Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar. The title of the talk is “Aquinas...
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Oerter on inertial motion and angels
Last week I linked to my paper “The Medieval Principle of Motion and the Modern Principle of Inertia,” which appears in Volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics....
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Around the web
Still busy trying to meet a looming deadline and prepare for a conference next week, so expect posting to be light for a few more days. In the meantime here some things worth checking out...
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Schliesser on the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
I commented recently on the remarks about Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos made by Eric Schliesser over at the New APPS blog. Schliesser has now posted an interesting set of objections to Alvin...
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Mumford on metaphysics
In another in a series of excellent interviews with contemporary philosophers, 3:AM Magazine’s witty and well-informed Richard Marshall talks to analytic metaphysician Stephen Mumford. Mumford is an...
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Over at The Huffington Post, Rabbi Adam Jacobs defends the cosmological argument for the existence of God, kindly citing yours truly and The Last Superstition. Give it a read, then sit back and watch...
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Metaphysical middle man
As I’ve noted many times (e.g. here), when a thinker like Aquinas describes God as the First Cause, what is meant is not merely “first” in a temporal sense, and not “first” in the sense of the cause...
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Craig versus Rosenberg
Theist philosopher William Lane Craig debated atheist philosopher Alex Rosenberg at Purdue University on February 1. You can watch the debate here. I put forward my own detailed critique of...
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