2008–2009
209 posts
2009 171
December 2009
- AQUINAS: Best of 2009
- Churchland on dualism, Part III
- The evolution of liberalism (and “conservatism”)
- Churchland on dualism, Part II
- Churchland on dualism, Part I
- How to sing like an eliminative materialist
- Lycan on eliminative materialism
- Don’t necessarily trust the experts
- Cogitating Ross
- Trust the experts
- Misinformation campaign
- Rosenberg responds to his critics
- Nagel on ID
- Petersen on naturalism
- Searle, Aquinas, and property dualism
- Spectaclism versus naturalism
- I hear you’re mad about Brubeck….
- Rosenberg on naturalism
November 2009
- Anderson’s Pure
- McInerny on De Koninck
- Oderberg contra Strawson on act and potency
- Earman and Oderberg on miracles
- Plato’s affinity argument
- An ambiguous conservative
- Final causality and Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover
- Sartre on theism and morality
- Martin on sexual virtue
- Beckwith on Thomism and ID
- The Greek atomists and the god of Paley
- The metaphysics of jazz
- The trouble with William Paley
- William Lane Craig on divine simplicity
October 2009
- StAR on TLS
- Bill and Keith
- Copy editors and political correctness
- Mao-Maoing the Beck watchers
- …but not the 90s
- The Thomistic tradition, Part II
- Scruton mania [UPDATED]
- The Thomistic tradition, Part I
- Hank’s Pad
- Happy Columbus Day!
- Libertarian neutrality so-called
- In other news, Edward Feser has been awarded the Dawkins Prize…
- Warburton on the First Cause argument
- High IQ versus common sense?
- Fossils and Frankenstein monsters
- Four approaches to teleology
September 2009
- The difference between McCarthyism and liberalism
- Teleology revisited
- Thomistica.net
- I love the 80s
- Now available: AQUINAS
- Heisenberg on act and potency
- Schrödinger, Democritus, and the paradox of materialism
- The sordid topic of Coyne
- Manzi on the Wright-Coyne dispute
August 2009
- Steely Dan contra Roger Scruton
- Is self-ownership axiomatic?
- TLS on radio
- Derbyshire encounters Gottfried
- Rothbard revisited
- Rubber souls
- Cothran on TLS
- Woody Herman channels Steely Dan
- Scholastic’s Bookshelf, Part II
- G. A. Cohen (1941-2009)
- Rothbard as a philosopher
- Mass for clunkers
- Monton on ID
- Superheroes and sentimentality
- Rorschach test
July 2009
- If Confucius or Aristotle did stand-up…
- Anscombe in August
- The illusion of plausibility
- My brush with greatness
- UnBeguiled, UnHinged, and UnWorthy of further attention
- Beguiled by scientism
- Hitting the metaphysical snooze button
- TLS on radio
- Declining standards
- Scholastic’s Bookshelf, Part I
- Latest reviews of TLS
- Summer reading
- Conservatism, populism, and snobbery
- Gordon on Cohen
June 2009
- Richard’s Holiday Camp
- The materialist shell game
- Empiricism versus Aristotelianism
- Hume, science, and religion
- You can’t make this stuff up, folks
- Farrell Multimedia
- But seriously, ladies and degenerates…
- Who may punish the guilty?
- Trinity Sunday
- Zmirak on Tiller
- Leiter hits new low. In other news, sky is blue, water wet…
- Envoy Institute conference
- Dueling bloggers
- Farrell on TLS
- Two monsters
May 2009
- Book of the Year
- Woods on TLS
- Francks on Scholasticism
- NCRegister on TLS
- Happy Birthday
- Oderberg’s Real Essentialism
- Davidson’s anomalous monism
- Strawson on the categorical and the dispositional
- Stove Award competition heats up!
- Act and potency
- Eric Mack on John Locke
- “It’s just so obvious!”: The case of torture
- TLS on radio
April 2009
- It’s just so obvious!
- The interaction problem, Part II
- TLS on radio
- Spinoza on final causes
- TLS radio podcast
- Descartes’ “clear and distinct perception” argument
- More on the APA petition controversy
- TLS on radio
- Down with Feezer!
- Give me that old time atheism
- Kalb on TLS
- Stove Award winner announced!
March 2009
- Fodor and Aquinas on the Extended Mind Thesis
- Pants on fire
- The Last Superstition: the commercial
- The less Rey knows, the less he knows it
- Straw men and terracotta armies
- Scruton on the New Atheism
- The latest on the APA petition controversy
- How (some of) your professors see you
- Vallicella on hypocrisy
- ForeWord on TLS
- Oderberg on bioethics
- “Yawn” indeed
- Ross’s Thought and World
- So am I a crank and a liar, or not?
- Searle and property dualism
- And on the Leiter side…
- Politicizing philosophy
- Kimball on the ECC controversy
- J. L. Austin and conservatism
February 2009
- TLS radio podcast
- Tone deaf
- Ashes to Ashes
- Oderberg's Real Essentialism
- Wiley-Blackwell responds
- Conservatives and tradition
- TLS on radio
- More on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy
- Brin on conspiracy theories
- ‘Too Christian’ for academia?
- The Newspeak of the moderns
- Aristotle and Frege on thought
- Quine as a conservative
January 2009
- Steele on conspiracy theories
- Another conspiracy?
- The trouble with conspiracy theories
- Behe blackballed at Borders?
- Purely academic
- Change you can believe in
- Apologia pro George W. Bush
- Walters on TLS
- Vallicella on Rand
- Computers, minds, and Aristotle
- The critics’ choice
- America, empire, and conservatism
- The Metaphysics of the Martini
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December 2008
- Coffey's Ontology
- Warby on Philosophy of Mind
- Some Christmas reading
- Mindreading?
- Horwitz on The Cambridge Companion to Hayek
- Oderberg on hylemorphic dualism
- An open letter to Heather MacDonald
- A Rodney King moment
- The burden of bad ideas
- Secular conservatism
- A Neo-Scholastic revival?
November 2008
- Some brief arguments for dualism, Part V
- Gordon on TLS
- Goldstein's book
- Blog comments policy
- Why allow abortion but not “same-sex marriage”?
- Antichrist Superstar
- Dewey defeats Truman?
- Almost as stupid as “same-sex marriage”
October 2008
- Some brief arguments for dualism, Part IV
- From the latest reviews of The Last Superstition
- Adler on intellect
- President Herod?
- What's Wrong with the World...
- The preposterous Christopher Buckley
- Guilt by association?
- The interaction problem
- Conservatism and libertarianism
- Some brief arguments for dualism, Part III