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Friday, February 19, 2021

Material Monism

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Monday, February 3, 2020

Reading #47: Lucretius

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Lucretius: Only Atoms and the Void : Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void But, now again to weave the tale begun, All nature, t...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Plato: what is eternal?

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"We must first investigate concerning [the whole Cosmos] that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Reliabilism

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Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy A type of theory in epistemology that holds that what qualifies a belief as knowledge or as epistemica...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Natural Religion

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Defining Natural Religion: A term first occurring in the second half o the seventeenth century, used in three related senses, the most c...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Scrooge, the senses, and belief formation

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Scrooge, the senses, and belief formation Jacob Marley: Why do you doubt your senses?  Ebenezer Scrooge: Because a little thing can ...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error

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Al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error Struck with the contradictions which I encountered in endeavoring to disentangle the truth and falseho...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Hawking: The Grand Design

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"If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be create...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Euthyphro

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Euthyphro 1. What is piety? 2.  What are the implications if the gods disagree about what is pious? 3.  What did Zeus do to his father? ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Reading #46: Dating Methods

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Half-life and radioactive dating methods Source: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/NNPTC/Radiation/doe_reactor_theory_v1.p...

Reading #45: Dawkins and Intelligent Design

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Reading #45: Dawkins and Intelligent Design Dawkins interview:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pckg3Kud8_A What are the two times D...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Plantinga and Reid

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Plantinga on Warrant and Evidentialism "Even if we could give an argument to show that a given source of belief was, in fact, reliabl...

Aristotle: The Laws of Thought

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http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.4.iv.html In the following, Aristotle argues for the three laws of thought: Identity: a is...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Reading #39: Geertz and Defining Religion

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Clifford Geertz.  The Interpretation of Cultures.  Basic Books, New York.  1973. As interworked systems of construable signs (what, ignor...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Reading #38: Babylonian Theodicy and Job

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The Babylonian Theodicy and Job Compare this to the book of Job.   1.  What is the difference in the sufferers and the comforters?   2. ...