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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Owen Barfield persuades Lewis to reject "realism"

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 In the second place he convinced me that the positions we had hitherto held left no room for any satisfactory theory of knowledge. We had b...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

Left and right on abortion

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 Left wing argument for outlawing abortion:  1. Fetuses are an oppressed class, like blacks, Hispanics, women, gays, and lesbians. They must...
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Physicalism and the illusion of reasoning

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  But at the base level of analysis we can form expectations of where every atom in the universe will be indepenent of any meaning or purpos...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

How to commit the fallacy of composition and get away wtih it

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  Transference between parts and wholes is tricky. But if there is no teleology in the parts, there is no teleology in the whole. A brick wa...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2023

C. S. Lewis and the milk jug

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  “Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thin...
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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Ethical Subjectivism and Hannibal Lecter

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  Suppose Hannibal invites someone over for dinner, shoves them into the oven, and cooks them AS dinner. You discover what Hannibal has done...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Do atheists hate God?

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 Here's a Christian who says they do. The implication is that they really know in their hearts that there is a God, but are suppressing...
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Saturday, April 15, 2023

Snobby attitudes

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  In spite of the snobby attitude that a lot of people have towards Lewis, I would point out that Lewis tutored philosophy at Oxford Univers...
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Sunday, April 09, 2023

In honor of Easter, my reply to Hume

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  Here. 
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

EXceptions?

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  Do you think there are no exceptional cases where there is a medical reason to do a gender reassignment.? Granted. I think the trans craze...
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Friday, March 31, 2023

Arizona School Board ends contract with anti-LGBTQ Christian college

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  Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, defends the Washington School District for ending its student teacher contract with Arizona Christian ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Indiviidual Race Theory

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  I think one way of posing the issue on race is to ask, not whether critical race theory is true, but whether individual race theory is tru...
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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Vallicella on explaining consciousness

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  Here . 
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Left on abortion

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 This is where the left has gone on abortion, and pro-abortion extremism is toxic.  They are so afraid of people who get abortions being ...
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Friday, March 17, 2023

Tucker vs.Trump

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  Tucker vs. Trump "I HATE [TRUMP] PASSIONATELY." –Tucker Carlson, Jan. 4, 2021 "THERE REALLY ISN'T AN UPSIDE TO TRUMP....
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Thursday, March 16, 2023

We are on the wrong road

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Thursday, March 09, 2023

Faulty Epistemology

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  I remember a few years back there was going to be a debate at the Oregon State Socratic Club about the legitimacy of transgendering. The t...
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Monday, March 06, 2023

This was Starhopper's Blog

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Here.  Mostly devoted to astronomy.
Friday, March 03, 2023

C. S. Lewis anticipated Thomas Nagel

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  Here. 
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Sad News: The passing of Starhopper

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 Bob was a friend I knew as an undergraduate at ASU. I met him in a History of Middle Ages class, back in 1973. He, along with his friend Jo...
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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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