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I have not blogged on political matters as yet. I don’t consider myself to be either far on the right or on the left, but I do have serious ...

This is from Geoffrey Madell's Mind and Materialism (Edinburgh: Edinbugh University Press, 1988) "It has been clearly recognized by...

My previous post on neurophysiology was a response to an e-mail sent to me by Jim Lippard. I thought I should ask his permission before shar...

David asked where the Kant and Hasker passages came from with respect to the unity of consciousness argument, and I realized that I had forg...

Does the evidence and success of the science of neurophysiology provide overwhelming evidence that the mind is physical? I have some doubts....

Can science know everything? I have my doubts, at least if certain kinds of truths are excluded from science. Well, the concept of the first...

Ahab on Internet Infidels Discussion Board wrote: So this really seems to boil down to your definition of what the self is. Unless someone a...

Perhaps one of the most frequently used arguments against the various arguments from reason is that computers are undeniably physical system...

This is a site that discussion Pullman's attacks on Lewis.

Here are some comments by Ed Babinski which I would like to take a moment to respond to: Ed: Vic, Why can't you be satisfied as a philos...

I just posted the following to the Internet Infidels Discussion Board: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=2342284#post2342284 Original...

One issue that arose in relation to the discussion of John Ku's story is the critique of C. S. Lewis which impressed him. The book came ...

People following the discussion of the Cartesian Cogito will be interested in this critical response to me by Alan Cook and some further cl...

This is Maverick Philosopher's take on the cogito. Someone has already responded from a Kantian perspective.

I responded to a comment on Bibliocracy from an anonymous commentator, in the context of a discussion of Kim's work in the philosophy o...

The essay on philosophy and Narnia, which I mentioned earlier , will appear in a volume advertised here . It's coming out this fall from...

I would be interested in people's reactions to this story of leaving the Christian fold after having confidence in Lewis's apologeti...

Computers sometimes tell you things about your games that you would rather not find out. This has always been one of my favorite Dragon game...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy here and here Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.e...

Last November, I sent the version of my response to Carrier that appears on this blog to him, and he was kind enough to send a set of respon...