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This week's 15 Minute Insight (the 4th and final in the series), on semiotics as a discipline and as the normative science of truth. But now, let us ask—since we’re talking about the study of the action of signs and this questions seems pretty important for that discussion—let us ask, what is a sign? In …
The following is a reflection from some surplus notes to tonight's reading for the Aquinas Seminar. How do we pursue wisdom and attain truth? It is not an easy, simple, straightforward, linear task. It is a difficult, complex, windy, recursive process, wherein the chief obstacle is ourselves and our tendency to presume we know more …
[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 wait is over! At least, for the PDF--I have a few small tweaks to make to the paperback before I list it for sale, but that should be completed within the week. In the meanwhile, you can find the PDF available here, as well as a permanent page describing the book and maintaining a …
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An excerpt from a Gloss within Introduction to Philosophical Principles: --- Among the most popular arguments against the existence of God is the imperfection of the universe: the argument that not only are our lives on earth messy—at times through no fault of our own as either individuals or even as a species, as when a …
After drafting, revising, editing, revising again, taking some space, and revising one last time, I have completed the text of the Introduction to Philosophical Principles. I am still fine-tuning a few last things--the proverbial dotting of i's and crossing of t's--before I release the final, complete PDF, including figuring out what precisely I need to do …
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In an article published some years ago, Fr. Joseph Koterski, SJ, made several salient points about the need for, despite the confusion about, authority in any society (2002: "Defending Authority" in Grasso and Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan, 107-25). Most especially, as he noted, are the need and the confusion experienced in academia …
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This phrase--"thinking beyond academia"--was written by a friend and colleague of mine in the context of working on a joint (forthcoming) project of ours, and specifically in reference to what I am attempting to do professionally. I have since taken it up as a kind of tagline: Continuum Philosophical Insight is thinking beyond academia. With rare …
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