On the Meaning of "Objective" and the fallout from loss of its original meaning
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 …
[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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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 …
Release: Introduction to Philosophical Principles
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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Artificial Intelligence & Concept Formation
The text of this talk (given 19 March 2019 at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI) is now available here. I'll be recording a video of myself presenting it (audio recording did not work out during the initial presentation) sometime in the near future as well.
Anthropocentrism & Atheism
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 …
Introduction to Philosophical Principles – Preview
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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