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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

An evangelical critique of the pro-war position

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Hat tip: Jarrod Cochran. THE STRANGER IN THE PULPIT, by Samuel J. Ross In February of 2003, shortly before the U.S. declared war on Iraq, I ...

A note from Mr. Schellack

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Mr. Reppert, I write to you on an impulse, and I hope you will forgive any  incoherence on my part.  I have appreciated your work on Mr. Lew...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Mea Culpa

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Mike at rereason takes me to task for a misleading post about reading Narnia in Florida. He's right of course (though I'm not sure I...
Monday, November 28, 2005

Here we go again with Anscombe nonsense

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Nuff said. No, let me repeat what I posted back on June 28: My researches into the Anscombe exchange show pretty clearly 1) Anscombe provide...
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A list of logical fallacies

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Mike Darus wanted to know where you can get a list of logical fallacies. Well, this is it, from Wikipedia, with links to other sources on fa...
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An atheist perspective on Mere Christianity

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This is an attack on C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity I found on the Internet Infidels discussion board. And then there's a link to ...
Friday, November 25, 2005

Notes on The First Two Chapters of Mere Christianity

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Book I: Right and Wrong as the Clue to the Meaning of the Universe I. General Considerations: A. Mere Christianity is a work in Christian ap...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Bart Simpson's Thanksgiving Prayer

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We paid for this ourselves, so thanks for nothing.
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The Kansas ID controversy

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The only way to really find out what the Kansas board of education decided about ID and evolution is to read what they actually said. This i...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Anniversary

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This is the 42nd anniversary of C. S. Lewis's death. Oh yeah, there were a couple of other guys who died the same day. I forget their na...
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Vallicella on Putnam and intentionality

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This is another excellent piece by Vallicella on intentionality.
Monday, November 21, 2005

Robert Velarde replies to Gopnik

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This is Robert Velarde's response to Gopnik, which appeared at Doug Groothuis's blog.

Mere Christianity Study Guide

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This is a link to a study guide for Mere Christianity, which comes from Mississippi College. Since I am doing leading a study of that book a...

Some notes on Aristotle for my PHI 101 class

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I. Aristotle’s Life II. Relationship to his teacher Plato: A. While Plato’s philosophy is idealistic, inspiring, otherworldly and perfection...

Edward Feser on the argument from Intentionality

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The following is from Philosophy of Mind: an Introduction, by Edward Feser. Hat tip: Joe Markus from the Internet Infidels Discussion board....
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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Vallicella on intentionality

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Because of some of the interest in the issue of intentionality, I have redated this post to today. Vallicella has been talking about intenti...
Friday, November 18, 2005

The shorte version of Paradise Lost

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"Milton's Paradise Lost, one of the most sublime works of Western literature, was reduced to a four-line text message (txtmsg) yest...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

An Internet Infidels discussion I started on intentionality.

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I put a link to my response to Carrier on intentionality. I started the discussion and chose the topic, but somehow I'm guilty of the r...
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David Downing on the C. S. Lewis nonsense machine

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I sent a letter to fellow Lewis scholar David Downing warning him (as if he didn't already know) that the C. S. Lewis nonsense machine i...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Adam Gopnik on C. S. Lewis

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Anyone who thinks that Wilson has written a good biography of Lewis should read John Beversluis's "Surprised by Freud." Bevers...
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I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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