Speaking of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, there's going to be a new Tom Stoppard play about the "Hard Problem". I'm so excited! Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling … Continue reading
An interesting quotation from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica concerning what I am calling the Theological Method. The quotation steers a middle road which avoids both fideism (the belief that faith involves the acceptance of propositions without evidence, and that … Continue reading
Here they are: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ http://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/sorry-aristotle-and-aquinas-but-i-still-dont-understand-formal-causes/ UPDATE: Also worth reading: http://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/rescuing-aristotle/
Those who have been following the debate between St. Craig and Carroll, or my own recent posts about it, might also be interested in the viewpoints contained in the following articles: Carroll on laws and causation (St. Feser) Cosmology and … Continue reading
I've written a pop-article about Time Machines and Event Horizons, which has appeared on the Scientific American blog Critical Opalescence. George Musser, my host, is an editor at Scientific American, and kindly gave me this opportunity to talk about some … Continue reading
