-
Recent Posts
- Number and Reality 3: The Demonstration That 2 Plus 2 Are 4 Spelled Out
- Number and Reality 2. Towards a Philosophy of Mathematics Bibliography
- Number and Reality 1. Some Initial Questions and the Initial Question
- Number and Reality 0. An Introduction to a Project in the Philosophy of Mathematics
- Logic Matters
Recent Comments
Archives
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- June 2019
- May 2019
- November 2018
- July 2018
- May 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- November 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- August 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
Categories
- Abortion
- About this Blog
- After Aristotle Introduction to Philosophy Initiative
- Alain Badiou
- Alien Intelligence
- Aristotelian Logic
- Aristotelian Philosophy
- Aristotle's Poetics
- Bertrand Russell’s Religion and Science
- Bill Vallicella
- Conservatism
- Contemporary Philosophers
- Edward Feser
- Edward Feser's Five Proofs of the Existence of God
- Ethics
- Existence of God
- Faith
- First Principles
- Foreigncy
- Free Introductory Logic Text
- Freedom of Speech
- French
- Gun Control and the Second Amendment
- Intelligence
- Intentionality
- Islam
- Islam and American Politics
- Islamic Theology
- Levi Bryant
- Logic
- Logic and Political Discourse
- Maverick Philosopher
- Metaphysics
- Modern Logic
- My Blogroll
- Natural Law Theory
- Nelson Mandela
- Ontology
- Persian
- Personal
- Philosophical Demonstration
- Philosophy
- Philosophy as a Demonstrative Science
- Philosophy of Literature
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Science
- Political Philosophy
- Prayer
- Principle of Excluded Middle
- Principle of Non-Contradiction
- Public Discourse
- Religion
- Roger Scruton's An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Scientism
- Scripture and Violence against Infidels
- Seeing
- Simon Blackburn's Think
- Theology
- Theory of Identity
- Theory of Knowedge
- Theory of knowledge
- Theory of Linguistic Representation
- Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
- Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle
- Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean?
- Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos
- Thomistic Philosophy
- Time
- Torture
- Trinity
- Truth
- Uncategorized
- Universals
Blogroll
-
Tag Archives: Bill Vallicella
A Proof That at Least One Thing Can Be Proven in Philosophy
1. There is a widely held opinion that, in contrast with, say, mathematics, there are no demonstrative arguments, or proofs, in philosophy. This opinion is held, not just by those not well acquainted with philosophy, but also by many or … Continue reading
Define or Drop.
In his August 19, 2017, post, “Define or Drop,” the Maverick Philosopher’s”maverick philosopher,” Bill Vallicella, offers the following statement regarding and invitation and directive to “leftists.” For leftists, words are weapons. If you are a lefty, and you disagree, then … Continue reading
Vallicella on the Liberal Mind-set: A Bit of an Overstatement?
It seems to me that no matter how long I wander away from reading blogs, I find upon returning to blogdom that some things remain the same that perhaps shouldn’t. A case in point: after a long period of being … Continue reading
Theories of Knowledge and Theories of (Linguistic) Representation in Parallel Outline 2
0. In my post of December 30, 2013, “Theories of Knowledge and Theories of Linguistic Representation in Parallel Outline 1,” having been inspired to do so by some passages in the “Introduction to Theory and Criticism” of The Norton Anthology of … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Literature, Theory of Linguistic Representation
Tagged Aristotle, Bill Vallicella, Existential Quantifier, Identity, Logic, On the Soul, Representation, Seeing, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Linguistic Representation, Universal Quantifier
Leave a comment
Seeing and the Existence of the Seen
0. This is not the post which, in the immediately previous post, I indicated the next post would be. Let me explain why. In that immediately previous post, published on December 30th, in which I presented some statements of some … Continue reading
Vallicella, Philosophical Conversation, and Political Philosophy
In his August 3, 2013, post, “Philosophy, Debate, and Dialog: Can Philosophy Be Debated?,” Bill Vallicella, the “maverick philosopher,” answered the question posed in the post’s title in the negative negatively. He adds, “When real philosophy is done with others … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Tagged Bill Vallicella, Maverick Philosopher
Leave a comment
On the Philistinism of the Nagel Bashers
In response to its characterization as a “good article” by Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, in “Kimball on the Philistinism of the Nagel Bashers,” I have just read Roger Kimball’s “What Philistinism Looks Like” ,” a defense of sorts of … Continue reading
After Aristotle 