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Science and truth III16 comments

Andrew wrote 1 day ago: John and I have been continuing an old discussion about science, and I thought I would make it it … more →

Tags: Apologetics, History, Old Testament, Philosophy, Science, Theology, Creation Science, Creationism, Darwinism

Thomas Hobbes on Libertarian Freedom & Human Liberty

Celucien Joseph wrote 4 weeks ago: Philosophers have come up with various theories or categories of determinism and free will, concerni … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Freedom, Determinism, Thomas Hobbes, Materialism, Liberty

IV. Diet Atheism: Dawkins, "New" Atheist Authors, and the Hyper-Reductive Gods of Book Sales

Sir Gnome wrote 2 months ago: *Revised briefs from a conversation with a Richard Dawkins fan; an explication on the morphology of … more →

Tags: Literature, Journalism, Legal Issues, Philosophy, Christianity, Religion, Science, reification, Postmodernity

Capitalist Philosophy of Mind: Part 1 - Philosophical History1 comment

Alderson Warm-Fork wrote 2 months ago: While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘Marxist’, I do identify with the idea of ‘hi … more →

Tags: Class Society and Philosophy, Marxism, Philosophy, Descartes, philosophy of mind, historical materialism, Cartesianism

Physicalism, my arguments in favour

Ian Raugh wrote 3 months ago: Physicalism, the view that everything which exists is physical.  First, I think it necessary to defi … more →

Tags: Thoughts on Philosophy, brain, empirical, Empiricism, Hempel's Dilemma, logic, Mary's Room, Materialism, Mind

Beware the Magnevonian Myth!1 comment

elliotbee wrote 4 months ago: In an earlier post, “Actions and events…” (at my FCA blog but also available here), I de … more →

Tags: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, Causation, Hylomorphism, folk psychology, neuribilism

William Lane Craig's March 2009 speaking engagements

Wintery Knight wrote 4 months ago: For some reason, Bill’s March newsletter has not been posted on the RF web site yet. As one of … more →

Tags: Events, Debates, Apologetics, William Lane Craig, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Carrier, Determinism, Shelly Kagan, Wes Morriston

III. Diet Atheism: Discourse and The Rhetorical Stratagems of "New" Atheism

Sir Gnome wrote 4 months ago: Dan Barker, co-prez Freedom From Religion Foundation and rawesome speaker “However, the fact … more →

Tags: Journalism, Just Because..., Legal Issues, Philosophy, Politics, Atheism, Atheist Debate, Atheist Fundamentalism, atheist universalism

Russellian Physicalism19 comments

Richard Brown wrote 4 months ago: Chair: Rick Gawne, Western Michegan University Presenter: Barbara Montero, The Graduate Center, CUNY … more →

Tags: Russellian Monism, Podcasts

I. Diet Atheism: Is "New" Atheism Either?

Sir Gnome wrote 4 months ago: *Few of us “radical” skeptics care for philosophical debates which are far less philoso … more →

Tags: Journalism, Just Because..., Legal Issues, Philosophy, Politics, Atheism, Atheist Fundamentalism, atheist universalism, Dan Barker

Goodbye to the Ghost of the Ghost in the Machine

wacome wrote 5 months ago: A talk for the NWC Minding Place Symposium “Placing Mind in the Physical World” 9 April 2008 No Loop … more →

Tags: Mind, emergence, Materialism

Academic Earth - The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism

Wildcat wrote 5 months ago: Professor Kagan discusses the two main positions with regard to the question, “What is a perso … more →

Tags: Mind, Philosophy, personhood, dualism, Yale, Academic Earth

Physicalism: Possible Ways the World Might Be

dophilosophy wrote 7 months ago: The physicalist faces some difficult challenges in claiming that world is made up of only physical m … more →

Tags: Mind/Body, chisolm, Consciousness, Emerging Powers, Materialism

Virtualist metaphysics: Explanations and other fictions17 comments

Gorm wrote 8 months ago: A short discussion on Conscious Entities inspired me to compose a text too long and too off-topic to … more →

Tags: English, dualism, Explanations, Fictionalism, Fictions, Immersion, metafiction, metaphysics, monism

Argument Against Identity Theory?2 comments

nunayerbeezwax wrote 9 months ago: To this day I am unsure whether or not I should consider myself sympathetic to Identity Theory.  As … more →

Tags: Philosophy, brain, Consciousness, Identity Theory, Mind, Semantics, Thought

Do Humans Have Souls?5 comments

Brett wrote 11 months ago: Many Christians consider this a settled question. Of course we have souls! … Right? At the 2008 … more →

Tags: cs lewis foundation, dualism, nancey murphy, Oxbridge 2008, Philsophy, Richard Swinburne

The Causation Debate4 comments

Chris Dornan wrote 1 year ago: I have been discussing causation over at Crooked Timber and despite a couple of attempts to explain … more →

Tags: Feature Articles, Philosophy, Epistemology, Causation

resurrection of soul/body

Nate wrote 1 year ago: This poem is a bit late for Easter, although it is still Easter season, both in East and Western Chu … more →

Tags: Theology, Poetry, John Updike poem, Easter, resurrection poem, Easter Poem, nancey murphy, Ted Peters, N.T. Wright

Raw Materials1 comment

Evan Rosa wrote 1 year ago: “We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may ‘conquer’ them… The price of conquest is … more →

Tags: technology, ethics, Philosophy, Naturalism, Human Nature, Materialism


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