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Averroism and cloud computing
The Latin followers of the medieval Islamic philosopher Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 - 1198), such as Siger of Brabant, famously taught the doctrine of the unity of the human intellect. The basic idea...
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Nietzschean natural law?
Some years ago, at an initially friendly dinner after a conference, I sat next to a fellow Catholic academic, to whom I mildly expressed the opinion that it had been a mistake for Catholic theologians...
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
My article “Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good” appears in the volume Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, edited by Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák and forthcoming from Routledge....
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Dude, where’s my Being?
It must be Kick-a-Neo-Scholastic week. Thomas Cothran calls us Nietzscheans and now my old grad school buddy Dale Tuggy implicitly labels us atheists. More precisely, commenting on the view that “God...
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Back from Cologne
Back today from an excellent conference on the theme “New Scholastic Meets Analytic Philosophy” hosted by the Lindenthal Institut, with cooperation from the publisher Editiones Scholasticae, in...
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Present perfect
Dale Tuggy has replied to my remarks about his criticism of the classical theist position that God is not merely “a being” alongside other beings but rather Being Itself. Dale had alleged that “this...
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Churning out links
At First Things, philosopher Patrick Toner takes issue with a recent biography of painter Norman Rockwell.David Oderberg’s article “The Morality of Reputation and the Judgment of Others” appears in the...
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Zombies: A Shopper’s Guide
A “zombie,” in the philosophical sense of the term, is a creature physically and behaviorally identical to a human being but devoid of any sort of mental life. That’s somewhat imprecise, in part...
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Peter Geach (1916 - 2013)
Commonweal reports that Peter Geach -- philosopher, one of the fathers of “analytical Thomism,” husband of Elizabeth Anscombe (with whom he is pictured in a famous photo by Steve Pyke), and Catholic...
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A complex god with a god complex
I thank Dale Tuggy for his two-part reply to my most recent remarks about his criticisms of classical theism, and I thank him also for his gracious remarks about my work. In Part 1 of his reply Dale...
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Da Ya Think I’m Sphexy?
Sphex is a genus of wasp which Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and other writers on cognitive science and philosophy of mind have sometimes made use of to illustrate a point about what constitutes...
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Nagel on Nozick
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia has recently been reissued with a new Foreword by Thomas Nagel. You can read the Foreword via Google books. In it Nagel describes the situation in moral and...
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E. J. Lowe (1950 - 2014)
Philosopher E. J. Lowe has died. A neo-Aristotelian of sorts, he was one of the most important metaphysicians in contemporary philosophy, and by all accounts a kind and decent man. He left many...
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2014 Aquinas Workshop
Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY will be hosting the Fourth Annual Philosophy Workshop on the theme “Aquinas on God”from June 5-8, 2014. The speakers will be James Brent, OP, William E....
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Does existence exist?
Existence exists.Ayn RandExistence does not exist.Cardinal CajetanBoth Rand’s statement and Cajetan’s sound very odd at first blush. What does it mean to say that existence exists? Isn’t that like...
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Oderberg reflects on Lowe
The following is a guest post by David S. Oderberg on the life, work, and legacy of the late E. Jonathan Lowe (pictured at left), who died on January 5.E.J. Lowe (1950-2014)My first intellectual...
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DSPT colloquium 2014
The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA will be hosting a colloquium on the theme “What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem? Dialogue between Philosophy and Theology in the 21st...
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The pointlessness of Jerry Coyne
People have asked me to comment on the recent spat between Jerry Coyne and Ross Douthat. As longtime readers of this blog know from bitter experience, there’s little point in engaging with Coyne on...
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Estranged notions
Strange Notions is a website devoted to discussion between Catholics and atheists and operated by Brandon Vogt. It’s a worthwhile enterprise. When he was getting the website started, Brandon kindly...
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Jerry-built atheism
David Bentley Hart’s recent book The Experience of God has been getting some attention. The highly esteemed William Carroll has an article on it over at Public Discourse. As I noted in a recent post,...
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