As part of a forthcoming endeavor, I am launching a new program of Quaestiones disputatae. More details will be shared on this new program in the near future. Right now, however, I would like to draw attention explicitly to the public-facing part of this program, the quodlibetal question. Quodlibetal questions were a special form of disputation in …
Pursuing Truth, Refuting Error
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] 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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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 …
Continuum Philosophical Insight 