Feser on Schliesser’s Comments on Plantinga’s EAAN by way of Nagel, &c.
Edward Feser, at his blog: “In any event, whether we think our ordinary, pre-scientific perceptual and rational faculties are unreliable to only a minor extent or to a significant extent, we cannot...
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Notable Quote: Chesterton on Thomas Aquinas
“Without pretending to span within such limits the essential Thomist idea, I may be allowed to throw out a sort of rough version of the fundamental question, which I think I have known myself,...
View ArticleNew Film on Transhumanism
Rebecca Taylor (Mary Meets Dolly) points to a new film coming out about transhumanism, and she rightly points out the aptness of the subtitle: Will we survive our technology? For that is exactly the...
View ArticleMonday Links: Feser on Metaphysics, Lewis and Scientism, and Backwards...
Edward Feser writes at his blog: “That secondary causes are true causes, even if ultimately dependent on God, is necessary if natural science is to be possible. If occasionalism were true, absolutely...
View ArticleWilliam Carroll: Man is Not a Machine
Today at Public Discourse: “Who Am I? The Building of Bionic Man” What are we to make of this new man-made man? Is he what one commentator called a “walking, talking, blood pumping vision of our...
View ArticleThe Catholic Thing: One God
My latest article is up today at The Catholic Thing: “An ancient Chinese myth tells of ten Suns that existed in primordial times. Prideful and intemperate, as pagan gods are often wont to be, these...
View ArticleBr. Consolmagno on Science and Faith
Br. Guy Consolmagno, of the Vatican Observatory, discusses science and faith in a recent TED talk.
View Article“Science is in a mess and needs help”
Edward Feser comments on Tallis, Pigliucci, Dennett, Ladyman and some others on naturalism in the news.
View ArticleBarr on Seagrave on Evolution
Over at Public Discourse, S. Adam Seagrave offers an objection to evolution, and Stephen Barr responds: Sensation reigns supreme within its own domain, but its domain is not the whole of what is...
View ArticleLatkovic on the Brain and the Mind
At Public Discourse today: “Are You Out of Your Brain? Reflections on Free Will and Neuroscience” by Mark Latkovic As if to press the Delete key on the views of untold numbers of thinkers who have...
View ArticleInterview Science and Free Will
Zenit posts today the first part of an interview with physicist Antoine Suarez: “My motivation to organize this conference and to edit the book was to discuss the idea that science today is compatible...
View ArticleSuarez Interview, Part II
…on science and religion, quantum physics and free will, and on being a Catholic scientist, is available now from Zenit.
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Fr. Griffin: “Pope defends faith as a way to truth”
I am looking foward to reading the new encyclical Lumen fidei, issued by Pope Francis and started by Pope Benedict. For now, here is some commentary from MercatorNet by Fr. Carter Griffin. The topic of...
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Pigliucci, Dawkins, Transubstantiation, & Samuel Johnson
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci writes a post at his blog Rationally Speaking regarding the supernatural, and discusses some specifically Catholic ideas in so doing. Now, Pigliucci is also a naturalist...
View ArticleFeser on Kuhn on Nothing
It turns out, there’s still a lot you can say about nothing: “The wary reader might fear that what we have here is a rehash of Krauss’s unhappy speculations about “possible candidates for nothingness”...
View ArticleSakimoto: “The Astronomer’s God”
At Ethika Politika: “One reason I took up the pursuit of astronomy was that I wanted to understand everything in the Universe. And, in that case, I meant everything. I said that being an astronomer...
View ArticleMills on Stenger
At Real Clear Religion, Notre Dame’s M. Anthony Mills critiques Victor Stenger’s book, God and the Atom: Stenger argues that, since its inception, atomism and atheism have gone hand in hand. To accept...
View ArticleMartin on the Idea of God
Regis Martin writes at Crisis: “The answer, of course, is that the idea of God has no particular source, no genesis one could trace back to the point of origin. Anymore than, say, the idea of geometry,...
View ArticleA Little Nothing for the Weekend
A discussion at First Things. First, in “Response to ‘Fifty Shades of Nothing‘”, John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn respond to Ed Feser’s previous critique of their volume, The Mystery of Existence:...
View ArticleCarrol on Kitcher on Nagel
At Public Discourse, William Carroll asks: Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality? “Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature” “Kitcher’s...
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