Philosophy – Page 54 – William M. Briggs

A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux

After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…

Philosophy

Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will

Edge is at it again, asking named persons "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" Many interesting things to discuss, so consider this the launching of…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Intellect Is Not A Temperament

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're still…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: More On The Possible Intellect

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're still…

Philosophy

Vatican Analyzes The Difference Between Humans And Robots

Soon a robot will ask you if you want fries with that. Computer screens already do, in some locales. How does that make you feel? Hungry? That could be taken…

Culture Philosophy

Do I Exist?(Does Russia) Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Read Part I here. So God has already acted. There is no potentiality left in Him, as Aquinas would say. After all, He's already done everything. There's nothing left to…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Aristotle vs Averroes On The Intellect & Soul

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're still…

Culture Philosophy

Do I Exist? (Does Russia?) Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Do I exist? Great question. And does that rock over there really exist? Another great question. For idiots. Yet those are the two questions that have tortured all of the…

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