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Hitting Bottum 27 Aug 2013 | 10:15 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 By now you may have heard that Joseph Bottum, reputedly conservative Catholic and former editor of First Things, has ...
Out on the links 23 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I called attention recently to the special issue of the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly devoted to the theme “C...
Mad dogs and eliminativists 22 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As an epilogue to my critique of Alex Rosenberg’s paper “Eliminativism without Tears,” let’s take a brief look at Rosenberg’s recent interview at...
The director as demiurge 19 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’ve been reading Ian Nathan’s book Alien Vault, an agreeable account of the making of Ridley Scott’s Alien. “Making...
Eliminativism without truth, Part III 15 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Now comes the main event. Having first set out some background ideas, and then looked at his positive arguments for ...
NOW AVAILABLE: Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics 12 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics, an anthology I've edited for Palgrave Macmillan’s Philosophers in Depth series, ...
Eliminativism without truth, Part II 9 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We’re looking at Alex Rosenberg’s attempt to defend eliminative materialism from the charge of incoherence in his pap...
Eliminativism without truth, Part I 6 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Suppose you hold that a good scientific explanation should make no reference to teleology, final causality, purpose, ...
Links not to miss 3 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’ve been out of town for most of a week. Regular blogging will resume shortly. Until then, some reading material f...
Fifty shades of nothing 24 Jul 2013 | 12:38 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Note: The following article is cross-posted over at First Things. Nothing is all the rage of late. Physicists Steph...