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.
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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Sex & Gender: The Irreducible Masculine and Feminine
Electricity, more than any other technological innovation in the history of humankind, changed our perceptual habits: not only by the disruption of our circadian cycle, but by the way in which it allowed us to create products of mass culture and subsequently perfuse our lives with them. That is: culture has held a prominent role …
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Against Hume and His Followers
Note: this is excised rough material from the draft of a book that will be in the works for likely many years. It is a bit choppy and derived partially from teaching material. Notes have not been formatted. It has been posted here as I often pick on Hume on social media, but haven't the …
Upcoming Projects
My lack of blog entries lately is not due to lack of desire or effort; only a lack of time. Projects and request always seem to stack up all at once. That said, I do have some exciting things coming up soon and others on the horizon. First, I am nearing completion on a short …
Some notes on animal cognition
Aquinas—unlike some others of his time, before his time, and even after his time—did not always underestimate the potency of non-human animals’ estimative capacity by reducing it to “instinct”: that is, to an inborn, unchanging, “pre-programmed” routine of how to deal with environmental factors. As we know now, in an endeavor accelerated by the investigative …
