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Neo-Scholastic Essays
I am pleased to announce the publication of Neo-Scholastic Essays, a collection of previously published academic articles of mine from the last decade, along with some previously unpublished papers and...
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Review of Wilson and Scruton
In the Spring 2015 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, I review Edward O. Wilson’s The Meaning of Human Existence and Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World.
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Cross on Scotus on causal series
Duns Scotus has especially interesting and important things to say about the distinction between causal series ordered accidentally and those ordered essentially -- a distinction that plays a key role...
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Love and sex roundup
Current events in the Catholic Church and in U.S. politics being as they are, it seems worthwhile to put together a roundup of blog posts and other readings on sex, romantic love, and sexual morality...
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There’s no such thing as “natural atheology”
In his brief and (mostly) tightly argued book God, Freedom, and Evil, Alvin Plantinga writes:[S]ome theologians and theistic philosophers have tried to give successful arguments or proofs for the...
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Animal souls, Part II
Recently, in First Things, David Bentley Hart criticized Thomists for denying that there will be non-human animals in Heaven. I responded in an article at Public Discourse and in a follow-up blog...
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Marriage and The Matrix
Suppose a bizarre skeptic seriously proposed -- not as a joke, not as dorm room bull session fodder, but seriously -- that you, he, and everyone else were part of a computer-generated virtual reality...
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Caught in the net
Some of the regular readers and commenters at this blog have started up a Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion discussion forum. Check it out.Philosopher Stephen Mumford brings his Arts Matters...
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Aristotle’s four causes versus pantheism
For the Platonist, the essences or natures of the things of our experience are not in the things themselves, but exist in the Platonic “third realm.” The essence or nature of a tree, for example, is...
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Feyerabend on empiricism and sola scriptura
In his essay “Classical Empiricism,” available in Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2, philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend compares the empiricism of the early moderns to the...
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Fulford on sola scriptura, Part I
At The Calvinist International, Andrew Fulford replies to my recent post on Feyerabend, empiricism, and sola scriptura. You’ll recall that the early Jesuit critique of sola scriptura cited by...
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Fulford on sola scriptura, Part II
Let’s return to Andrew Fulford’s reply at The Calvinist International to my recent post on Feyerabend, empiricism, and sola scriptura. Recall that the early Jesuit critique of sola scriptura cited by...
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Empiricism and sola scriptura redux
After my recent series of long posts on sola scriptura (here, here, and here), I fear that you, dear reader, may be starting to feel as burned out on the topic as I do. But one final post is in order,...
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Love and sex roundup
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Unintuitive metaphysics
At Aeon, philosopher Elijah Millgram comments on metaphysics and the contemporary analytic philosopher’s penchant for appealing to intuitions. Give it a read -- it‘s very short. Millgram uses an...
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Marriage inflation
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.W. S. Gilbert, The GondoliersLake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.Garrison...
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Review of Mele
Over at the online edition of City Journal, I review Alfred Mele’s recent book Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will.
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Animal souls, Part I
Here’s a postscript, in two parts, to my recent critique in Public Discourse of David Bentley Hart’s case for there being animals in heaven. In this first part, I discuss in more detail than I did in...
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Animal souls, Part II
Recently, in First Things, David Bentley Hart criticized Thomists for denying that there will be non-human animals in Heaven. I responded in an article at Public Discourse and in a follow-up blog...
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A linkfest
My review of Charles Bolyard and Rondo Keele, eds., Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic appears in the May 2015 issue of Metaphysica.At Thomistica.net, Thomist theologian Steven...
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