Monthly Archives: July 2008

Knowledge of God Reading Group – Week 2

Kevin Timpe just posted his discussion for the second half of chapter one in our Knowledge of God reading group.Continue Reading

The 3-day Resurrection Tablet and Disagreement about Evidence

There’s a recently discovered tablet that is making headlines. It is claimed that: The tablet predicts a Messiah that will die and be raised from the dead 3 days later, and The tablet is dated before the time of Jesus Christ. Let’s set aside authenticity issues for the moment. I’ll let the archaeologists hash thatContinue Reading

Mysteries of Time and the Multiverse

Here’s a recent pop-science article from the LA Times. It’s an interview with physicist, Sean Carroll (Caltech). He discusses the possibility of multiverses and the hypothesis that our universe is an off-shoot of some other universe in the multiverse.Continue Reading

A Good Real World Case for Personal Identity

In my intro classes I like to start off with personal identity. Any continuity view of personal identity is threatened by fission/split-brain cases. When I discuss these cases, a handful of students typically balk at the far-fetched nature of the cases where brains are split and a half survives. It strikes them as even moreContinue Reading

Language Without Numbers

Here’s a piece about an MIT research team study on an Amazonian tribe that has no word for numbers. They use quantifiers like “some”, “all”, and “most”. Is this good news for nominalists?Continue Reading

Assortment of Fun News for Linux Lovers

I’ve been ranting enough about switching to Ubuntu for professional reasons, that I thought people interested in those posts might be interested in some of these items that I’ve come across today. Here’s a fun list that should be of interest to Linux lovers. This is kind of funny. Dell has discovered a loophole toContinue Reading

Fox News

When I first saw this video I was still a little reluctant to jump on the Fox News bashing bandwagon. It’s pretty much an open admission from Murdoch that Fox News manipulates news to push Murdoch’s agenda. And I wasn’t even going to jump on the bandwagon after I found out about the persistant switchingContinue Reading

Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded, Concedes That It’s Torture

Article here.Continue Reading

A Puzzle For the Proper Function Argument Against Naturalism

I just posted my first post in the Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion. I’ll post the first part here. To read the entire post over at Prosblogion click here. A Puzzle for the Proper Function Argument Against Naturalism In chapter one of Knowledge of God, Alvin Plantinga argues that naturalism cannot accountContinue Reading

Philosopher’s Carnival

…is here.Continue Reading