Since we had so much fun pulling apart Ed Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (start here), I thought we’d do the same for Peter Kreeft’s brand new […]
The Philosophy of Data
Writes David Brooks (from whom I filched the title): [T]he rising philosophy of the day…is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data. This ability seems to carry […]
Precaution: Part II—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
For all the flurry surrounding precaution—being portrayed as a decisional/procedural instrument to protect human and environmental health from the (potential) dangers of human activities—the history shows that we are dealing with something […]
Precaution: Part IV—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
Read Part III. Science plays an interesting role in precautionary culture. Overall, science is looked at in our culture as a discerning field of advice in terms of numerous aspects of life […]
Precaution: Part V (Final)—Guest Post by J.C. Hanekamp
Read Part IV Trying to create an ideal world by precautionary design carries utopian overtones of a nostalgic streak, also known the pastoral ideal that is so well described by Leo Marx’s […]
What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common
Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984 has not […]
Teaching Journal: Day 7
The joke is old and hoary and so well known that I risk the reader’s ire for repeating it. But it contains a damning truth. Most academic statistical studies are like a […]
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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