On the Meaning of "Objective" and the fallout from loss of its original meaning
On the Meaning of “Objective”
On the Meaning of “Truth”
Another week, another 15 Minute Insight video; this time on the meaning of "truth". Today, speaking very broadly, most theories of truth fall into one of two camps. The first, the more traditional camp, sees truth as somehow revelatory of or correspondent with reality as independent of our cognitive activity. The most well-known such theory …
On Modernism and Postmodernism
Another week, another 15 Minute Insight video; this time on modernism and postmodernism. Today’s topic is the first of four related videos I’ll be doing: following this, in two weeks, I’ll be posting a video on the meaning of “truth”; the week after, on the meaning of “objective”, and finally, the week after that, a …
On the Meaningful Use of Words
Another 15 Minute Insight video, worked out with considerable angst, on how we use the word "meaning" and how we might use other words meaningfully. Now, it is a widespread problem today, I believe—more widespread probably than any time in recent memory—that we human beings, especially in the Western world, take it for granted that …
Problems with Neuroreductionism
A short, fifteen minute audio recording on the problems with neuroreductive ("you are just your brain!") explanations of human experience. I'll probably do more of these "fifteen minute insights" in the future.
[UPDATE 5/9] Two Upcoming Seminars: Aquinas & Heidegger
[Update 5/9: see below for new pricing and participant caps.] Beginning next month, I will be conducting two online seminars: Thomas Aquinas: Wisdom and Synthesis To understand the thought of Thomas Aquinas is to grasp concepts far removed from the ways of thinking common today. In few issues is this more obvious than Thomas’ cosmological …
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The Sophistication of Sophistry
The Sophist takes refuge in the darkness of not-being, where is at home and has the knack of feeling his way, and it is the darkness of the place that makes him so hard to perceive… Whereas the philosopher, whose thoughts constantly dwell upon the nature of reality, is difficult to see because his region …
Paperback Release and More
The paperback of the Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person is now available from Amazon. You can still download the complete PDF here for free (donations appreciated), but if like me, you prefer a physical copy, the paperback has been priced at a very affordable $11.75--and for something that is print-on-demand, the …
