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The latest on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
Last month, Joe Bessette and I participated in a panel discussion about our book By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishmentat the Fall Conference of the Notre Dame Center...
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A stocking stuffer for your Romanian friends
Just in time for Christmas: A collection of several of my essays has been published in a Romanian translation, under the title De la Aristotel la John Searle și înapoi. Patru articole filosofice. More...
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At last, another open thread!
Long overdue (sorry), it’s the latest open thread. Talk amongst yourselves. Unlike Linda Richman, I won’t give you a topic. From Aquinas to Quine, Cheap Trick or fine wine, bad puns and lame...
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A Hart that pumps bile
Strangely, as David Bentley Hart has gotten more gratuitously nasty and unhinged in his attacks on me, I find myself less offended, or even having much of an affective reaction at all. It’s like...
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Five Proofs on CrossExamined
Recently I was interviewed by Frank Turek for his show CrossExaminedon the subject of my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. You can now listen to the podcast at the CrossExamined website.Other...
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A lexicon for the capital punishment debate
This year, readers of this blog have been subjected to a long, heated, and sometimes confusing series of debates on the subject of Catholicism and capital punishment. To help you take stock, here’s a...
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The best New Atheist book?
The New Atheism, one hears from time to time (e.g. here, here, here, and here), is dead. Maybe. It depends on what you mean by “New Atheism.” I would say that its key marks are three: first, an...
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Reelin’ in the links
At Catholic World Report, my co-author Joseph Bessette on the death penalty, recent popes, and deterrence.The New Yorker on the late Jerry Fodor and his critique of Neo-Darwinism.Physicist Sabine...
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Five Proofs on television and radio
This Wednesday, January 10, I will be on EWTN Live with Fr. Mitch Pacwato discuss Five Proofs of the Existence of God. I will also be taping an episode of EWTN Bookmark for future airing. Also...
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Barron and Craig in Claremont (Updated)
Last night at Claremont McKenna College, Stephen Davis and I moderated an exchange between Bishop Robert Barron and William Lane Craig. You can watch a video recording of the event at Bishop Barron’s...
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The latest on Catholicism and capital punishment
Is there still anything left to say about the death penalty? Yes, plenty. In the debate generated by By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed, the focus has been on questions about the interpretation of...
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Prof. Fastiggi’s pretzel logic
I’m going to take a break from the topic of the death penalty soon – I’m quite sick of it myself, believe you me – but the trouble is that critics of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed keep saying things...
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Coming to a campus near you
On Tuesday, February 6, I will be speaking at Brown University on the topic of capital punishment and natural law. Prof. James Keating will respond. The event is sponsored by the Thomistic Institute,...
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David Foster Wallace on abstraction
In his book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (he had a way with titles), David Foster Wallace has some wise things to say about abstraction. To orient ourselves, let’s start with the...
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The latest on Five Proofs
Check out a short interview I did for EWTN’s Bookmark Brief, hosted by Doug Keck, on the subject of Five Proofs of the Existence of God. The much longer interview I did for Bookmarkwill appear before...
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NOR on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
In the latest issue of New Oxford Review, F. Douglas Kneibert kindly reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. From the review:Catholics are so accustomed to...
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Time, space, and God
Samuel Clarke’s A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God is one of the great works of natural theology. But Clarke’s position is nevertheless in several respects problematic from a Thomistic...
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Drunk stoned perverted dead
The immorality of perverting a faculty is far from the whole of natural law moral reasoning, but it is an important and neglected part of it. The best known application of the idea is within the...
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Carrier on Five Proofs
In an article at his blog, pop atheist writer Richard Carrier grandly claims to have “debunked!” (exclamation point in the original) Five Proofs of the Existence of God. It’s a bizarrely incompetent...
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The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
My essay “Freedom in the Scholastic Tradition” appears in The Oxford Handbook of Freedom, edited by David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel and just out from Oxford University Press. The other contributors to...
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