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This is a blog to discuss philosophy, chess, politics, C. S. Lewis, or whatever it is that I'm in the mood to discuss.

Monday, May 20, 2024

Lewis and Nagel

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  In Lewis’s essay “Meditation in a   Toolshed Lewis distinguishes between looking ay and looking along.   Looking at is the third person sc...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Cause and effect

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If determinism is  true, t he cause has to guarantee the effect. We often use the word "cause" to refer to things that influence, ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

No Free Will?

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Child labor

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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Can an evolutionary biologist believe in purpose?

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 By Zachary Ardern .. 
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Thursday, February 01, 2024

Fallacy of composition?

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  1. Every molecule of the planet Saturn occupies space. 2. Therefore , Saturn occupies space. Fallacy of composition?
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Monday, January 15, 2024

The rise of anti-semitism

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  Antisemitism on the rise A disturbing trend 
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Thursday, January 04, 2024

Burdens of proof

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  Is there a burden of proof concerning the existence of burdens of proof?
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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Melnyk on naturalism

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 H ere's a quote by materialist Andrew Melnyk.  “Naturalism claims that nothing has a fundamentally purposeful explanation…Naturalism sa...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

God and modern miracles

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 An interview with Craig Keener. 
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Too smart to believe in God?

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Miraculous Healing: The case of Henrique Mecking

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 The great chess grandmaster from Brazil, Henrique Meckiing, was at death's door from a rare disease. He is alive and well at 71 todya, ...
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Monday, December 11, 2023

Virtue theory and humility

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  Aristotle thought that it was good to think highly of yourself, so long as you don't take it too far. The Christian traditiion says th...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

From Lewis's the Poison ol Subjectivism

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 After studying his environment man has begun to study himself. Up to that point, he had assumed his own reason and through it seen all othe...
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

C. S. Lewis's De Futilitate

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 Here.  This includes different forms of the argument from reason than found in Miracles. Anscombe's rebuttals don't apply to some o...
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Friday, November 17, 2023

What was Anselm's argument for God?

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

Do you misgender your pet? Shame on you!

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Monday, October 30, 2023

User Illusion

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  Perhaps the idea of a mentalistic explanation requires some explanation. A moment ago I went out to get the mail. I believed that getting ...
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In honor of my Arizona Diamondbacks in the World Series--Sister Wynona Carr's The The Ball Game.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The rise and fall of the new atheism

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Victor Reppert
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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