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Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism
Dozens of big brains, and one fat head held aloft by Yours Truly, crammed into a small room yesterday to hear all there was to know, more or less, about…
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The Unbelievers: The Movie. Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss On Tour
A camera followed two village atheists on their wanderings, spliced together some of their less tedious talks, sprinkled in a few celebrity cameos, such as one by noted scientist Woody…
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Logic: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part I
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…
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The Dire And Depressing Implications Of Science As Scientism: Two Introductions
A long introduction... Scientism is the fallacy that all that is known and all that can be known, can only be known through scientific methods: that which is testable is…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism I: Introduction — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should…
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Realism vs. Anti-Realism V: Conclusion—Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
The debate between the three views is ancient, and extremely complicated. It can also seem at first glance to be very dry, esoteric, and irrelevant to practical life. But nothing…
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Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part II
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Act and Potential TLS is not a complete work of theology or philosophy,…
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Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part III
First Things First Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. There is only one truth, and everybody must operate by…
