At the Singularity awaits The Beast. Or so says James Barrat in Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Yours Truly only read the free Kindle preview). […]
Author Says Machines Will Take Over The World
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 […]
George Weigel’s Evangelical Catholicism, A Brief Review
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church, George Weigel. The Good Old Days may never have existed, but surely there were better days. Worse days, too. It is also not certain […]
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 […]
Applied Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VIII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VIII is Applied Ethics. Time to get dirty! Article 1: […]
General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really exists and […]
Epistemology: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VI
Read Part V. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. We are back on familiar stamping groups with Question VI, Epistemology. […]
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 […]
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