A Little Nothing for the Weekend
A discussion at First Things. First, in “Response to ‘Fifty Shades of Nothing‘”, John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn respond to Ed Feser’s previous critique of their volume, The Mystery of Existence:...
View ArticleCarrol on Kitcher on Nagel
At Public Discourse, William Carroll asks: Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality? “Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature” “Kitcher’s...
View ArticleFeser on the Soul
Edward Feser answers some questions on the nature of the soul: “Remember, the Thomist allows that in the intellect’s normal state, corporeal activity is necessary for its operation — it’s just not...
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Short Notes on the Multiverse
Laura Mersini-Houghton writes in the latest issue of Nautilus in defense of the multiverse, offering, she says, empirical evidence for it. Her claims are, needless to say, controversial. Yet I would...
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Science Isn’t Special: Short Quotes and Notes on Realism
M. Anthony Mills, by way of writing about Chesterton, Pascal, Duhem, and conspiracy theories at RealClearReligion, gets at the reason that I support a modest, moderate, considered, cautious, or...
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Time & Space
Twelve million years ago, a star in the galaxy we call M82 exploded. Since M82 lies 12 million light years away, the light from that explosion just reached Earth last week, being first noticed on...
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Lewis, MacDonald, Krauthammer & the Soul
You’ve probably come across this quote before: You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. I am glad to discover that the source of this quote is not, as is commonly claimed, C. S. Lewis,...
View ArticleMartin on Sheed on Sanity
Catholic World Report offers an interview with Hampton University’s Dr. Joseph Martin about Frank Sheed, the Catholic writer, and his conviction that reason finds its fulfillment in the Faith: Sheed’s...
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Carroll on the Philosophy of Nature
William Carroll writes at Public Discourse (“The Limits of Life: Biology and the Philosophy of Nature“): ‘For some time, astrobiologists have been studying what are called extremophiles, organisms that...
View ArticleProfile of Polkinghorne
Discover offers a look at Anglican priest and particle physicist John Polkinghorne: “When he describes his line of work, John Polkinghorne jests, he encounters “more suspicion than a vegetarian...
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