On the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science In October 2016, Notre Dame University Press published Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory Read more
A Tale of Two Naturalisms: Churchland, McGinn and Plantinga’s “Advice for Christian Philosophers” Many naturalists embrace some version of scientism, holding that modern science is the only or the chief authority regarding our Read more
Dallas Willard Mentored Me to Be Mentored by Christ Through the Spirit Dallas Willard’s impact in philosophy is far and wide. Many had the privilege to do their doctoral work under his Read more
The Implausibility of Physical Determinism Richard Swinburne, a recent Presidential Visiting Scholar at Biola University’s Center for Christian Thought, offered this lecture at a recent Read more
Ontology of Intentionality With this post, I continue my blog series on the ontology of knowledge. What kind of thing is intentionality? For Read more
Neuromania? The possibilities and pitfalls of our fascination with brains Neuro-aesthetics, neuro-evolutionary literary cricitism, neuro-ethics, neuro-law and neuro-theology – has the cult of ‘neuromania’ left us with a hollow, reductive Read more
Ontology of Knowledge: An Introductory Inquiry Lately, I have been giving a good deal of thought to what is needed to exist in order for us Read more
Philosophia Christi: Summer 2011 Issue The Summer 2011 issue of Philosophia Christi should start to drop in mail boxes within the next couple of weeks. Read more
Philosophia Christi: Naturalism, Teleology, Fine-Tuning Argument The Summer 2010 issue of Philosophia Christi features some helpful articles at the interesection of theories of teleology and fine-tuning arguments Read more