We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone, and […]
On Truly Random Numbers
Party trick for you. I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 4. Can you guess it? Two? Nope. Three? Nope. And not one or four either. I know what the number […]
To Coyne A Review: Did Jerry Coyne Really Read David Bentley Hart’s Book?
It took Jerry Coyne a while, but it appears—or rather, I should say there is weak and not overly convincing evidence—that the man has finally read David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of […]
Physical Anthropology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part V
Read Part IV. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question V is Physical Anthropology. The most contentious question is Article […]
Our Brains Are Not Us: Review of Brainwashed
My nomination for Worst Use of Inference in a Scientific Paper (2009) is “The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief” by brain scientist cum philosopher Sam Harris and colleagues. It is […]
Political Philosophy: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part IX
Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Read Part VIII. Question IX is Political Philosophy. Stand back! Article 1: Whether the […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part V
Soul music Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. A mistake followers of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas would not make is […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part Last: Skulls Full Of Nothing
Don’t Think Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Buy the book ($12.92 as of last glance). There is a curious phenomenon […]
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