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Reflecting on Russell’s Religion and Science 3. Russell as a Skeptic, Even with Respect to Science
1. The present post is the third in a series of posts reflecting on the philosophical theses at work in Bertrand Russell’s Religion and Science.* In the series’ previous posts, I have directed attention to Russell’s “exclusivist epistemological scientism,” as … Continue reading
Reflecting on Russell’s Religion and Science 2. Its Scientism Confirmed and Two Complications Raised
1. The present post is the second in a series of posts reflecting on the philosophical theses at work in Bertrand Russell’s Religion and Science.* In the series’ opening post, I did three things pertinent to the present one. First, … Continue reading
Reflecting on Russell’s Religion and Science 1. Scientism and the Four Purported Magisteria
1. One reason why I have not been posting over the past months is because I have been caught up in the teaching of courses new to me, in ethics, medical ethics, and environmental ethics. These having been courses for … Continue reading
Posted in Scientism
Tagged After Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell’s “The Art of Rational Conjecture, Bertrand Russell’s Religion and Science, Bertrand Russell’s The Art of Philosophizing and Other Essays, Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy, Epistemology, Magisteria, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religion, Richard. E. Hennessey, Science, Scientism, Stephen Jay Gould, Theology
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Nagel’s Omission of Theology as a Mode of Theoretical Knowledge
(Last Revised May 20, 2017} I have already devoted two posts in the present series, the “Nagel’s Comparison and Contrasting of Philosophy and Science,” of April 12, 2016, and the “Nagel’s Comparison and Contrasting of Philosophy and Mathematics,” of April … Continue reading
Posted in After Aristotle Introduction to Philosophy Initiative, Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean?
Tagged After Aristotle Introduction to Philosophy Initiative, Intellect, Natural Theology, Philosophical Theology, Philosophy, Sense, Supernatural Theology, Theology, Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean?
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Nagel’s Comparison and Contrasting of Philosophy and Mathematics
{Last revised May 31, 2017} Today’s post is one in a series, devoted for now to Thomas Nagel’s What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy,* a series constituting the Introduction to Philosophy Initiative presented to the … Continue reading
Posted in After Aristotle Introduction to Philosophy Initiative, Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean?
Tagged After Aristotle Introduction to Philosophy Initiative, Arguments, Aristotelianism, Demonstrative Arguments, Mathematics, Philosophy, Proof, Proof of the Existence of God, Thomas Nagel's What Does It All Mean?
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A Note on the “Natural” of “Natural Law Theory”
In his May 7, 2014, Crisis Magazine article, “Is Pluralism a Threat to Catholic Survival?” James Kalb tells his readers: Natural law claims to be a philosophical position that can be developed and defended without regard to religion, so it does … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Law Theory
Tagged Abortion, Catholicism, Crisis Magazine, Death Penalty, James Kalb, Natural Law, Philosophy, Religion, Supernatural
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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 3: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy and Ontology are “Separate”
0. I devoted my August 1, 2013, post on Badiou, “Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics,” to an analysis of the following passage from Being and Event (p. 3): The initial thesis of my enterprise—on the basis of … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics
Tagged Aristotelian Logic, Condition, Immediate Inference, Mathematics, Ontology, Philosophy, Propositions, Traditional Logic
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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 2: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics
0. In my previous post, “Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event”: An Introduction (Or Perhaps Not),” I began the task of cautiously determining, as best I could, just what the theses constituting the philosophy of Alain Badiou might be, a task … Continue reading
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Tagged Being and Event, Mathematics, Neo-Aristotelianism, Ontology, Philosophy, Separation
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Bringing in Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God
Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God* (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017) has been out for a few weeks now, though I received my copy, ordered in June, just a few days ago. The book commands serious reading … Continue reading →