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Finnis contra Francis
Prof. John Finnis is the most eminent living “new natural law” theorist, and a longtime opponent of capital punishment. Indeed, like other NNL writers, he regards capital punishment as always and...
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Five Proofs on The Ben Shapiro Show
Recently I was interviewed by Ben Shapiro for an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special. The subject is my recent book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. You can watch the interview either...
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Why Archbishop Viganò is almost certainly telling the truth
There are five considerations that seem to me to make it very likely that Archbishop Viganò’s testimony is truthful. To be sure, given how numerous and detailed are the claims he makes, it would not...
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The latest on Five Proofs
Some months back I was interviewed by Doug Keck of EWTN Bookmark about my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. The episode airs today on EWTN, and you can also watch it online either at the...
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The latest on Catholicism and capital punishment
Recently at Public Discourse, John Finnis defended the thesis that the Catholic Church could adopt the position that capital punishment is intrinsically immoral. Naturally, I disagree with him. My...
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Reply to Blackburn on Five Proofs
In the September 7 issue of The Times Literary Supplement, Simon Blackburn reviewed my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. The following response appeared in the TLSletters page in the September...
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10th anniversary open thread
While there are still a few days left to September, I should note that this month marks the 10th anniversary of this blog. It was initially started in part to serve as a kind of online supplement to...
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Five Proofs on Fox News Radio
Some time back I was interviewed by Lauren Green about my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God for her Fox News Radio show Lighthouse Faith. You can now listen to the podcast online.Links to other...
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Caught in the web
Many of you will have heard the awful news already. Longtime blogger Zippy Catholic has died.David Oderberg’s new book Opting Out: Conscience and Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society has just been...
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The voluntarist personality
A voluntarist conception of persons takes the will to be primary and the intellect to be secondary. That is to say, for voluntarism, at the end of the day what we think reflects what we will. An...
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By Man on radio
Last week on The Catholic Current radio show, I was interviewed by Fr. Robert McTeigueabout By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed and the recent change to the Catechism’s treatment of capital punishment. The...
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Capital punishment on The Patrick Coffin Show
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Patrick Coffin on the subject of capital punishment and the recent change to the Catechism. You can now watch the interview either at The Patrick Coffin Show...
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Violence in word and action
Bernard Wuellner’s always-useful Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy defines violence as “action contrary to the nature of a thing.” Readers of Aristotle and Aquinas will be familiar with this usage,...
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Thomas Pink on “official theology” (Updated)
At the National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin recently interviewed philosopher Thomas Pink on the subject of the failure of the Church’s leaders to teach and defend her doctrines. (The interview is...
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The latest on Catholicism and capital punishment
At First Things, Joseph Bessette, Michael Pakaluk, and Fr. Brian Harrison comment on Steven Long’s recent article on capital punishment and the change to the catechism, and Long responds.Parkland...
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Byrne on why sex is binary
At Arc Digital, philosopher Alex Byrne defends the proposition that there are only two sexes, while suggesting that this has no implications one way or the other for transsexuality, gender dysphoria,...
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Opening the thread
It’s the latest open thread. This is the time to get your off-topic comments off your chest, and to give your threadjacking impulses free rein. From iPhones to I, Claudius, from D-list celebs to...
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COMING SOON: Aristotle’s Revenge
My new book Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Sciencewill be out early next year from Editiones Scholasticae. More information forthcoming, but to whet your...
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Byrne on why sex is not a social construct
Recently we looked atphilosopher Alex Byrne’s defense of the commonsense view that there are only two sexes. In a new article at Arc Digital, Byrne defends another aspect of sexual common sense – the...
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Immateriality in Rome
Earlier this month I gave a talk on “The Immateriality of the Intellect” at a conference on neuroscience and the soul held at the Angelicumin Rome. Video of the talk has now been posted at...
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