2010–2026
1,453 posts
2026 53
October 2026
- Rehman on Immortal Souls
- The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism
- Toner on Immortal Souls
- Executions should not be livestreamed
September 2026
- Kingsnorth and Quay on transhumanism (Updated)
- Craig on Thomism and divine simplicity, Part II
- Craig on Thomism and divine simplicity, Part I
- Craig on finitism and presentism
August 2026
- Just war doctrine and Congress’s war powers
- Berkeley’s God
- Abortion and partisan politics
- Anthony Kenny (1931-2026)
July 2026
- Summer web surfing
- The evil and incoherence of targeting civilian infrastructure
- Anscombe on human dignity
- Review of Smith
- I'm a grandfather!
- Nguyen on Immortal Souls
- Chesterton on patriotism
June 2026
- The Journal of Natural Law
- What is the mechanical world picture?
- Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical
May 2026
- Nagel on Stroud on the possibility of metaphysics
- No, the U.S. has not been at war with Iran for 47 years
- The transmission theory of authority
April 2026
- Misunderstanding the “just cause” condition of just war doctrine
- Just war doctrine and moral certainty
- The Journal of Natural Law
- Caught in the web
- The New Neo-Scholasticism
- Rational social animals and addiction
- Will “a whole civilization die tonight”?
- Contra White and Graham
March 2026
- Texts on tyranny from the tradition
- The epistemology of microphysics
- Just war doctrine and the duties of soldiers
- Harrington on “Thomophobia”
- Thomism Revisited
- America’s conflict in Iran is not a just war
- Dissent and double standards at Where Peter Is
- The New Neo-Scholasticism
February 2026
- The U.S. war on Iran is manifestly unjust
- Xenophanes and natural theology
- Cancelled in L.A. (Updated)
- No, AI does not have human-level intelligence
January 2026
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December 2025
- Catholic natural law thinkers on nation versus race
- Merry Christmas
- Return of the missing links
- Lawful authority in just war doctrine
- Kant’s claustrophobic metaphysics (Updated)
- Would a U.S. war against Venezuela be just?
- It's an open thread!
November 2025
- Liberalism and the virtue of gratitude
- Pope Leo on immigration enforcement
- Searle contra deconstruction
- Remembering John Searle
- Cardinal Fernández on doctrinal clarity
October 2025
- There are two sides to the Catholic immigration debate
- Vallicella on Immortal Souls
- Fastiggi and Sonna on Catholicism and capital punishment (Updated)
September 2025
- Against flag burning
- John Searle (1932-2025)
- How not to limit free speech
- Thucydides’ times and ours
- Is mandatory vaccination intrinsically wrong?
August 2025
- Maimonides on negative theology
- Diabolical modernity
- Hanson on observation
- Newman on capital punishment
July 2025
- Suffering for the truth (Updated)
- A postliberal middle ground on trade
- Heeding Anscombe on just war doctrine
- A second Honorius?
- Aquinas and prudential judgment
June 2025
- Talk it out
- Solidarity
- Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran
- Shields on Aquinas on the Unmoved Mover
- The U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran (Updated)
- Immortal Souls in Religion & Liberty
- Riots should be suppressed swiftly and harshly
- MacIntyre on Hegel on human action
May 2025
- Lamont on Trump, abortion, and Ukraine
- What is ideology?
- Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
- Pope Leo XIV on families and the family of nations
- Greenland and the ethics of annexation
- Pope Leo XIV
April 2025
- The ethics of wealth and poverty
- Catholicism and immigration: Reply to Cory and Sweeney
- The pope’s first duty
- The two thieves
- On the tariff crisis
- On pride and vainglory
- Scholastic regress arguments
March 2025
- Immortal Souls on the Classical Theism Podcast
- Catholicism and immigration
- Liberalism’s catastrophic spider
- Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution
- Mackie on Pascal’s Wager
February 2025
- What proceeds from Hart (Updated)
- Immigration and academia on The Tom Woods Show
- Trump’s Gaza proposal is gravely immoral
- Just war principles and the Mexican drug cartels
- Catholics and immigration on No Spin News (Updated)
January 2025
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December 2024
- The thread you’ve been waiting for
- Boczar on Immortal Souls
- Gilson on philosophy and its history
- Nicholson on Immortal Souls
- Full interview on Pints with Aquinas
- Pints with Aquinas interview (Updated)
November 2024
- Zubia on Hume and liberalism
- Popper’s via negativa
- Advice to Christian Philosophers
- Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF
October 2024
- Progressive Catholics and capital punishment
- Augustine, liberalism, and political polarization
- Immortal Souls now available
- Abortion and subsidiarity
- Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau
September 2024
- The latest on Immortal Souls
- The new Aquinas 101
- The popesplainer’s safety dance
- Trump: A buyer’s guide
- The problem with the “hard problem”
August 2024
July 2024
- Word on Fire Institute course
- More on the GOP and social conservatism
- Now is the time for social conservatives to fight
- Fight, yes, but for what?
- The future of the Magisterium
- Rawls on religion
June 2024
- Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment
- Immortal Souls in eBook format
- Scruton on tradition
- Immortal Souls now available for pre-order
- Postliberalism is not despotism
- Multiverses and falsifiability
May 2024
- Update on Immortal Souls
- New video course at Word on Fire
- Immortal Souls
- Let’s open it up
- Dignitas Infinita at The Catholic Thing
April 2024
- Plato and Aristotle on youth and politics
- Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
- Mansini on the development of doctrine
- Two problems with Dignitas Infinita
- Western civilization's immunodeficiency disease
- Ed Piskor (1982-2024)
- The illusion of AI
March 2024
- Wishful thinking about Judas
- Jesuit Britain?
- Mind, matter, and malleability
- The metaphysics of individualism
- When do popes speak ex cathedra?
February 2024
- What counts as magisterial teaching?
- A comment on comments
- Avicenna, Aquinas, and Leibniz on the argument from contingency
- The heresy with a thousand faces
January 2024
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December 2023
- What is a “couple”?
- The scandal of Fiducia Supplicans
- The Aristotelian proof on Within Reason
- On Vallier, Vermeule, and straw men (Updated)
- Contra Vallier on integralism
November 2023
- Ryle on microphysics and the everyday world
- What is free speech for?
- All One in Christ at Public Discourse
- The Thomist's middle ground in natural theology
October 2023
- Cartwright on reductionism in science
- Thomism and the Nouvelle Théologie
- A little logic is a dangerous thing
- Michael F. Flynn (1947-2023)
September 2023
- Aquinas on the will’s fixity after death
- Augustine on false community
- The Death Penalty and Genesis 9:6: A Reply to Mastnjak (Guest article by Timothy Finlay)
- Hartshorne on the project of natural theology
August 2023
- Fastiggi on Capital Punishment and the Change to the Catechism, Part II
- Fastiggi on Capital Punishment and the Change to the Catechism, Part I
- Aquinas and Nietzsche on the politics of envy
- All One in Christ on EWTN Bookmark
- Haugeland on hylomorphism
- Open-minded open thread
July 2023
- Stove and Searle on the rhetorical subversion of common sense
- A comment on the Lofton affair
- Lofton’s YouTube straw man (Updated)
- What is classical theism?
- Archbishop Fernandez’s clarification
- Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Fernandez, and the “suspended Magisterium” thesis
- The vice of insensibility
June 2023
- Pilkington responds
- Postliberalism, economics, and culture
- In defense of culture war
- The associationist mindset
- Reconsidering corporal punishment
May 2023
- Hell and conditional prophecy
- Capital punishment and the law of nations
- Substance, teleology, and intentionality
- A Festschrift for Gyula Klima
April 2023
- The Catechism and Capital Punishment: A Reply to Annett
- Hazony and Gottfried on wokeism and Marxism
- What is a Law of Nature?
- All One in Christ on EWTN Live
- Talking philosophy and natural theology
- Strawson on free will and interpersonal relationships
- All One in Christ on Bookmark Brief
March 2023
- McCaig and Reilly on All One in Christ
- The philosophy of capital punishment
- Putnam on reason, reductionism, and relativism
- How to define “wokeness”
- This month at First Things
- Naturalism versus Katz’s Platonism
February 2023
- Open thread combox
- Catholicism, CRT, and the spirit of the age
- Pope Francis contra life imprisonment
- The Faith Once for All Delivered
- Talking about All One in Christ
- An anonymous saint?
- Avicenna on non-contradiction
January 2023
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December 2022
- Why did the Incarnation occur precisely when it did?
- When do popes teach infallibly?
- Is God’s existence a “hypothesis”?
- Davies on classical theism and divine freedom
November 2022
- Augustine on divine punishment of the good alongside the wicked
- Update on All One in Christ
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part VII: The influence of Kant
- All One in Christ at Beliefnet
- The teleological foundations of human rights
October 2022
- Divine freedom and necessity
- It’s an overdue open thread
- Divine freedom and heresy
- The latest on All One in Christ
- Can Pope Honorius be defended?
- The error and condemnation of Pope Honorius
September 2022
- Aquinas on the sin of rash judgment
- Chomsky on consciousness
- Perfect world disorder (sans paywall)
- Talking about All One in Christ
- Perfect world disorder
- Libertarianism, jazz, and Critical Race Theory
- Individualism and socialism versus the family
August 2022
- What is classical theism?
- Plato on democracy and tyranny
- Countering disinformation about Critical Race Theory
- Aquinas on St. Paul’s correction of St. Peter
- All One in Christ
- Benedict contra Benevacantism
July 2022
- Confucian hylemorphism
- Mullins strikes out
- The neo-classical challenge to classical theism
- Goff’s gaffes
- Cooperation with sins against prudence and chastity
- Problems for Goff’s panpsychism
June 2022
- Aristotle on the middle class
- What is conscience and when should we follow it?
- Economic and linguistic inflation
- The New Apologetics
- COMING SOON: All One in Christ
- Anti-reductionism in Nyāya-Vaiśesika atomism
May 2022
- Indeterminacy and Borges’ infinite library
- The hollow universe of modern physics
- Nietzsche and Christ on suffering
- End of semester open thread
- Benedict is not the pope: A reply to some critics
April 2022
- Socratic loyalty
- Fr. Gregory Pine on prudence
- Whose pantheism? Which dualism? A Reply to David Bentley Hart
- Tales from the Coffin
- Benevacantism is scandalous and pointless
- Two Harts beaten as one
- Touring the fifth circle
- Hart’s post-Christian pantheism
March 2022
- Unjust war and false masculinity
- Conspiracy theories, spontaneous order, and the hermeneutics of suspicion
- Chomsky’s “propaganda model” of mass media
- Just war theory and the Russo-Ukrainian war
February 2022
- Taylor on cognition, teleology, and God
- Sex and metaphysics
- The failure of Johnson’s critique of natural theology
- Johnson contra Aquinas
- McDowell’s Aristotelian near miss
- If you’ve been missing links
January 2022
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December 2021
- Geach on Hell
- The still, small voice of Christmas
- The Catholic middle ground on Covid-19 vaccination
- Western cultural suicide as apostasy (Updated)
- Dissident Philosophers
- Geach on original sin
November 2021
- MacIntyre on human dignity
- The Feast of Christ the King
- Geach’s argument against modernism
- Aquinas on the relative importance of pastors and theologians
- The politics of chastity
- Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature
October 2021
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part VI: Schopenhauer
- Untangling the web
- Truth as a transcendental
- From Socrates to Stock
- Covid-19 vaccination should not be mandatory
- Covid-19 vaccines and Jeffrey Dahmer’s nail clippings
- Covid-19 vaccination is not the hill to die on
September 2021
- It’s the next thrilling open thread!
- The “first world problem” of evil
- Lao Tzu’s negative theology
- Ioannidis on the politicization of science
- Make-believe matter
- Aquinas on humor and social life
August 2021
- Confucius on our times
- Oppy and Feser after-party
- Sterba on the problem of evil
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part V: Woody Allen
- Oppy on Thomistic cosmological arguments
July 2021
- Anaximander and natural theology
- Pope Francis’s scarlet letter
- Pope Victor redux?
- Aquinas on bad prelates
- The metaphysical presuppositions of formal logic
- Schmid on existential inertia
- Schmid on the Aristotelian proof
June 2021
- A whole lotta links
- Curiosity damned the cat
- Indeterminacy and the comics
- Five Proofs in Spanish
- An exegetical principle from Fortescue
- Aquinas and Hayek on abstraction
- Dave’s armstronging again
May 2021
- A reply to Dreher
- Do not abandon your Mother
- The trouble with capitalism
- Intellectuals in hell
- Grisez on balancing health against other considerations
- The idols of the mind
April 2021
- Social media’s fifth circle
- Corporate persons
- Voila! An open thread! (Updated)
- Aquinas and the problem of evil
- What is mathematics about?
- Frege on objectivity
March 2021
- Tennant on Aquinas’s Second Way
- Meta-abstraction in the physical and social sciences
- Lacordaire on the existence of God
- Aquinas on video
- Preventive war and quarantining the healthy
February 2021
January 2021
2020 84
December 2020
- Year-end open thread
- The access problem for mathematical Platonism
- District Attorney Michel Foucault
- What was the Holy Roman Empire?
- Augustine on divine illumination
November 2020
- Links for Thanksgiving
- Church and Culture radio interview
- Tyranny of the sovereign individual
- Means, motive, and opportunity
- Pink on Aristotle’s Revenge
- Perfect love casts out fear
October 2020
- “Pastoral” and other weasel words
- Dupré on the ideologizing of science
- Lockdowns versus social justice
- The Church embraces Columbus
- Joe Biden versus “democratic norms”
- Weigel’s terrible arguments
- Aquinas contra sedition and factional tyranny
September 2020
August 2020
- Open thread (and a comment on trolling)
- Separating scientism and state
- The particle collection that fancied itself a physicist
- Let’s play Jeopardy
- Russell’s No Man’s Land
- The links you’ve been longing for
- Popes, creeds, councils, and catechisms contra universalism
- A statement from David Bentley Hart
July 2020
- Scripture and the Fathers contra universalism
- No urgency without hell
- Hart, hell, and heresy
- The experts have no one to blame but themselves
- Computer campus
- Plato predicted woke tyranny
- Review of Hart
- Other minds and modern philosophy
- The virtue of patriotism
- The popes against the revolution
June 2020
- ACPQ symposium on Aristotle’s Revenge
- Envy cancels justice
- Apt pupil
- Locke’s “transubstantiation” of the self
- Great minds on wokeness
- Theology and the analytic a posteriori
- Pod people
- What “the science” is saying this week (Updated)
May 2020
- Metaphysical taxidermy
- The lockdown is no longer morally justifiable
- Oderberg on the hierarchy of being
- The lockdown and appeals to authority
- Presentism and analogical language
- Joe Biden Superstar
April 2020
- The burden of proof is on those who impose burdens (Updated)
- Links for the lockdown
- Kremer on classical theism
- The lockdown’s loyal opposition
- Review of Scientism
- The lesson of the Resurrection
- Some thoughts on the COVID-19 crisis
- Damnation denialism
March 2020
- Franklin on Aristotelian realism and mathematics
- Craig, conventionalism, and voluntarism
- Aquinas anticipated everything
- Craig contra the truthmaker objection to presentism
- Coronavirus complications
- Review of Craig’s God Over All
- On-topic open thread (and a word on trolls)
- The other way to lose a war
February 2020
- Agere sequitur esse and the First Way
- Morgan on Aristotle’s Revenge
- The socialist state as an occasionalist god
- Sandstad and Jansen on Aristotle’s Revenge
- Discussion with Graham Oppy
- Review of Kerr
- Preternatural theology
January 2020
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December 2019
- Overestimating human responsibility
- Cundy on relativity and the A-theory of time
- New from Oderberg
- Science et Esprit on Aristotle’s Revenge
- Brungardt on Aristotle’s Revenge
- Word to the Wise
- Unwise book reviewing
- The thread about nothing
November 2019
- Was Aquinas a property dualist?
- Time-sensitive Turkey Day tweets (Updated)
- The Last Superstition in French
- Against candy-ass Christianity
- Join the Ur-Platonist alliance!
- Oppy and Lim on Five Proofs
- Two popes and idolatry
- Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics
- The strange case of Pope Vigilius
October 2019
- New from Editiones Scholasticae
- John Paul II in defense of the nation and patriotism
- Masculinity and the Marvel movies
- Around the web
- Transubstantiation and hylemorphism
- Harvard talk (Updated)
September 2019
- Aristotle’s Revenge and naïve color realism
- Fastiggi on the revision to the Catechism (Updated)
- Three problems for Catholic opponents of capital punishment
- A further reply to Glenn Ellmers
- Review of Smith’s The AI Delusion
- Ellmers on Aristotle’s Revenge
August 2019
- Gage on Five Proofs
- Scotus on divine simplicity and creation
- Aquinas on creation and necessity
- A further reply to Mullins on divine simplicity (Updated)
- Summer open thread
- Contra Mullins on divine simplicity
- McCabe on the divine nature
July 2019
- Hayek’s Tragic Capitalism
- Debate with Graham Oppy
- Review of Tallis
- The latest on Five Proofs
- Psychoanalyzing the sexual revolutionary
- Interview on Aristotle’s Revenge
- The metaphysics of the will
- Speaking (what you take to be) hard truths ≠ hatred
- Norman Geisler (1932 – 2019)
June 2019
- Frege on what mathematics isn’t
- Just say the damn sentence already
- Links for thinkers
- The bishops and capital punishment
- Augustine on capital punishment
- A clarification on integralism
- Continetti on post-liberal conservatism
May 2019
- Rist slapped (Updated)
- Popes, heresy, and papal heresy
- Hayek’s Tragic Capitalism
- More on presentism and truthmakers
- Some comments on the open letter
- Review of Brague
April 2019
- Open the thread!
- Aristotelians ought to be presentists
- Vallicella on existence-entailing relations and presentism
- Vallicella on the truthmaker objection against presentism
- Review of a new volume on Neo-Scholasticism
- Can you doubt that 2 + 3 = 5?
March 2019
- Artificial intelligence and magical thinking
- New volume on philosophers and Catholicism
- Five Proofs on radio
- Wrath darkens the mind
- 2019 Aquinas Lecture
- ORDER NOW: Aristotle’s Revenge (Updated)
- Byrne on gender identity
February 2019
- Surfing the web
- Abortion and culpability
- The latest on Five Proofs
- Socialism versus the family
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part III: Freud
January 2019
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December 2018
- The sexual revolution devours its children
- Christmas every day
- Immateriality in Rome
- Byrne on why sex is not a social construct
- COMING SOON: Aristotle’s Revenge (Updated)
November 2018
- Opening the thread
- Byrne on why sex is binary
- The latest on Catholicism and capital punishment
- Thomas Pink on “official theology” (Updated)
October 2018
- Violence in word and action
- Capital punishment on The Patrick Coffin Show
- By Man on radio
- The voluntarist personality
- Caught in the web
September 2018
- Five Proofs on Fox News Radio (Updated)
- 10th anniversary open thread
- Reply to Blackburn on Five Proofs
- The latest on Catholicism and capital punishment
- The latest on Five Proofs (Updated)
- Why Archbishop Viganò is almost certainly telling the truth
- Five Proofs on The Ben Shapiro Show
August 2018
- Finnis contra Francis
- Hubris meets nemesis? (Updated)
- The Immateriality of the Mind
- Review of Pinker’s Enlightenment Now (Updated)
- An Open Appeal to the Cardinals of the Church
- Three problems with the change to the Catechism (Updated)
- Pope Francis and capital punishment
- Tugwell on St. Albert on negative theology
July 2018
- Five Proofs on radio
- Fallacies physicists fall for
- Crane and French on science and Aristotelianism
- Laws of nature at Fermilab
- The ad hominem fallacy is a sin
June 2018
May 2018
- Musical chairs brains minds
- The Church permits criticism of popes under certain circumstances
- Aquinas on the human soul
- Aquinas on the meaning of life
- Capital punishment at Church Militant
- NCR on Five Proofs
- Gödel and the unreality of time
- Claremont Center
April 2018
- SES podcast on classical theism
- Cooperation with sins against prudence (and chastity)
- Lessons from St. Justin Martyr
- Best T-shirt ever
- Does God have emotions?
- Upcoming speaking engagements
- Chalk on Five Proofs, etc.
- Five Books on Arguments for God’s Existence (Updated)
March 2018
- Holy Triduum
- No hell, no heaven
- Bellarmine on capital punishment
- Divine causality and human freedom
- The missing links
- Carrier carries on
- It’s the latest open thread
- Hart on Five Proofs
- The Oxford Handbook of Freedom
February 2018
- Carrier on Five Proofs
- Drunk stoned perverted dead
- Time, space, and God
- NOR on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- The latest on Five Proofs
- David Foster Wallace on abstraction
January 2018
2017 95
December 2017
- A lexicon for the capital punishment debate
- Five Proofs on CrossExamined
- A Hart that pumps bile
- At last, another open thread!
- A stocking stuffer for your Romanian friends
- The latest on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Manion on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Debate? What debate?
- Feser vs. Ahmed on Unbelievable?
November 2017
- Reply to Griffiths and Hart
- Barron and Craig event
- Reply to Fastiggi
- Reply to Brugger and Tollefsen (Updated again)
- Two further ideas about development of doctrine
- Link it! Link it good!
- Dawkins vs. Aquinas on Pints with Aquinas (Updated)
- Aristotle and contemporary science
- Pakaluk on capital punishment
- Review of Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Updated)
- Smith on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Five Proofs around the net
October 2017
- A further reply to Fastiggi, etc.
- McClamrock on By Man shall His Blood Be Shed
- Around the web with Five Proofs
- Five Proofs on The Patrick Coffin Show
- Reply to Ivereigh, Brugger, Shea, and Fastiggi
- Pope Francis on capital punishment
- Five Proofs with Prager et al. (UPDATED)
- Liberty, equality, fraternity?
- Coming to a campus near you
- Reading Religion on By Man
- Five Proofs on The Daily Wire
September 2017
- Aristotle on Medved
- Ward on Scholastic Metaphysics
- This week in radio
- Review of Leroi’s The Lagoon
- Thought-free blogs
- Conversations with Klavan et al.
- McGinn on mind and space
- Radio activity
- Walter Becker (1950 – 2017)
- Flew on Hume on miracles
- The latest on Five Proofs and By Man
August 2017
- Hey, kids! Links!
- Five Proofs is out (Updated)
- Jacobs on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Rucker’s Mindscape
- Capital punishment with Patrick Coffin
- Capital punishment with Prager (UPDATED)
- Capital punishment on EWTN
July 2017
- Cartesian angelism
- Capital punishment on radio and TV
- Msgr. Swetland’s confusions
- Essence and existence
- McCaffrey and Murray on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Aquinas watches Glengarry Glen Ross
- Briggs on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Capital punishment on the radio (UPDATED)
- Taking Aquinas seriously
June 2017
- It’s the next open thread
- Fr. Z on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Arguments from desire
- Surf dat web
- Stroud on Hume
- Five Proofs is coming
- The curious case of Pope Francis and the “new natural lawyers”
May 2017
- Catholic Herald on capital punishment
- When is a university not a university?
- Peters on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
- Wrath and its daughters
- Davies on evil suffered
- Caught in the web
April 2017
- Five Proofs preview
- Empirical science and the transcendentals
- The problem of Hume’s problem of induction
- Goldman on Dreher’s The Benedict Option
March 2017
- David Braine (1940 – 2017)
- Inaugural open thread
- Shea apologizes
- Mark Shea’s misrepresentation of Catholic teaching on capital punishment
- A low down dirty Shea
- Meta-bigotry
- Get linked
- Supervenience on the hands of an angry God
February 2017
- How to be a pervert
- Mired in the roiling tar pits of lust
- Foundations of sexual morality
- Science, computers, and Aristotle
January 2017
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December 2016
- Auld links syne
- Besong on Scholastic Metaphysics
- How Pope Benedict XVI dealt with disagreement
- Denial flows into the Tiber
- Hiroshima, mon Amoris? (Updated 12/16)
- Why not annihilation?
November 2016
- Mexican link off
- Does God damn you?
- The pre-existence of the soul
- Can schadenfreude be virtuous?
- Swindal on Neo-Scholastic Essays
October 2016
- How to go to hell
- Jackson on Popper on materialism
- Nothing has changed
- Swinburne speaks
- Latest from Oderberg
- The MSM in four lines
- Goodbye SCP (Updated)
- Secret crisis of infinite links
- Aquinas on consciousness
- Christina van Dyke owes Richard Swinburne her resignation
September 2016
- Robert P. George on capital punishment (Updated)
- Michael Rea owes Richard Swinburne an apology
- A further reply to Mark Shea
- Mind-body interaction: What’s the problem?
- Reply to Mark Shea on capital punishment
- Yeah, but is it actually actually infinite?
- A difficulty for Craig’s kalām cosmological argument?
August 2016
- Learn it, live it, link it
- Is Islamophilia binding Catholic doctrine?
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part II: Sartre
- Review of Harris on Hume
- Shinkel on Neo-Scholastic Essays
July 2016
- Liberalism and the five natural inclinations
- The Last Superstition in Brazil
- Capital punishment at Catholic World Report
- Bad lovin’
- I am overworked, therefore I link
June 2016
- Prior on the Unmoved Mover
- Aquinas on capital punishment
- Nagel v Nietzsche: Dawn of Consciousness
- Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part I: Nietzsche
- Four Causes and Five Ways
May 2016
- Linking for thinking
- Self-defeating claims and the tu quoque fallacy
- Putnam and analytical Thomism, Part II
- Putnam and analytical Thomism, Part I
- Aristotle, Searle, and computation in Nova et Vetera (UPDATED)
- Review of Taylor
- Islamophilia and falsification
April 2016
- Apologia interview
- Spiering on Neo-Scholastic Essays
- Craig on divine simplicity and theistic personalism
- Review of Hart
- Lofter is the best medicine
- The smell of the sheep (Updated)
- A note on falsification
March 2016
- So, what are you doing after your funeral?
- Brentano on the mental
- Oderberg on final causes
- Parsons on Coyne
- Conjuring teleology
- Putting nature on the rack
- Scott Ryan RIP
February 2016
- Around the web
- Review of Alexander
- Aquinas, Vanilla Sky, and Nozick’s experience machine
- Parfit on brute facts
January 2016
2015 75
December 2015
- Christians, Muslims, and the reference of “God”
- Goodill on Scholastic Metaphysics and Wittgenstein
- Yuletide links
- Should a Catholic vote for Ben Carson?
- In Defence of Scholasticism
November 2015
- The Telegraph on Scholastic Metaphysics
- Papal fallibility (Updated)
- Augustine on semantic indeterminacy
- Long list o’ links
- Dumsday and Vallicella on Neo-Scholastic Essays
October 2015
- Red herrings don’t go to heaven either
- Repressed knowledge of God? Part II
- Koukl responds (Updated)
- Repressed knowledge of God?
- Walter Mitty atheism
- Why can’t these guys stay on topic? Or read?
September 2015
- Harvard talk
- All Scientists Should Beg Lawrence Krauss to Shut the Hell Up Already
- Poverty no, inequality si
- Risible animals
- The absolute truth about relativism
- Pigliucci logic
August 2015
- The comedy keeps coming
- Dragging the net
- Is it funny because it’s true?
- Religion and the Social Sciences
- Marriage inflation
- Unintuitive metaphysics
July 2015
- Empiricism and sola scriptura redux
- Fulford on sola scriptura, Part II
- Fulford on sola scriptura, Part I
- Feyerabend on empiricism and sola scriptura
- Aristotle’s four causes versus pantheism
- Caught in the net
June 2015
- Marriage and The Matrix
- There’s no such thing as “natural atheology”
- Love and sex roundup
- Cross on Scotus on causal series
- Review of Wilson and Scruton
- Neo-Scholastic Essays
- Religion and superstition
May 2015
- Aristotle watches Blade Runner
- D. B. Hart and the “terrorism of obscurantism”
- Stupid rhetorical tricks
- Lewis on transposition
- A linkfest
- Animal souls, Part II
April 2015
- Animal souls, Part I
- Review of Mele
- Toner and McInerny on Scholastic Metaphysics
- Back from Princeton
- Hart jumps the shark
- The two faces of tolerance
- Albertus Magnus Center summer program
- Was Aquinas a materialist?
March 2015
- Web of intrigue
- Pigliucci on metaphysics
- Reasons of the Hart
- Anscombe Society event
- Capital punishment should not end (UPDATED)
- William Wallace, OP (1918-2015)
- Nyāya arguments for a First Cause
February 2015
- Descartes’ “indivisibility” argument
- Braving the web
- Augustine and Heraclitus on the present moment
- Accept no imitations
- What’s the deal with sex? Part II
January 2015
2014 91
December 2014
- Causality, pantheism, and deism
- Martin and Murray on essence and existence
- Christmastime reading for shut-ins
- Knowing an ape from Adam
- Causality and radioactive decay
- Working the net
- Progressive dematerialization
November 2014
- Interview with the metaphysician
- Augustine on the immateriality of the mind
- DSPT symposium papers online (Updated)
- DSPT interviews (Updated)
- Walking the web
- Voluntarism and PSR
October 2014
September 2014
- Thomas Aquinas, Henry Adams, Steve Martin
- DSPT Symposium
- Review of Jaworski
- Q.E.D.?
- The straw man that will not die
- Try a damn link
- Symington on Scholastic Metaphysics
- Marmodoro on PSR and PC
- Olson contra classical theism
August 2014
- Morrissey on Scholastic Metaphysics
- Science dorks
- Carroll on Scholastic Metaphysics
- You’re not who you think you are
- Around the web
- Haldane on Nagel and the Fifth Way
July 2014
- Logorrhea in the cell
- Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and The Patriarchy
- Signature in the cell?
- Where’s God?
- Back from Berkeley
- I link, therefore I am
- Clarke on the stock caricature of First Cause arguments
- Carroll on laws and causation
June 2014
- SCOTUS and Oderberg
- Pagden on the Enlightenment
- The last enemy
- Summer web surfing
- Sullivan’s cavils
- Judging a book by what it doesn’t cover
- Review of Gray etc.
May 2014
- Sexual cant from the asexual Kant
- Linked in
- This is philosophy?
- New Scholastic books
- Pre-Christian apologetics
- Dominicans Interactive reviews Aquinas
- Miracles, ID, and classical theism
- A second exchange with Keith Parsons, Part II
- School’s out forever?
April 2014
- Corrupting the Calvinist youth [UPDATED]
- A second exchange with Keith Parsons, Part I
- God’s wounds
- What We Owe the New Atheists
- Anthony Brueckner (1953 - 2014)
- Self control
- Welcome to the machine
March 2014
- What’s around the web?
- Dharmakīrti and Maimonides on divine action
- I was wrong about Keith Parsons
- Stop it, you’re killing me!
- L.A. area speaking engagements
- Gelernter on computationalism
- Can you explain something by appealing to a “brute fact”?
- An exchange with Keith Parsons, Part IV
February 2014
- An exchange with Keith Parsons, Part III
- An exchange with Keith Parsons, Part II
- An exchange with Keith Parsons, Part I
- Descartes’ “preservation” argument
- Four questions for Keith Parsons [UPDATED 2/21]
- Lowder then bombs
- The metaphysics and aesthetics of plastic
- A world of pure imagination
- Studia Neoaristotelica
- 2014 Thomistic Seminar
- Heavy Meta
January 2014
2013 102
December 2013
- Da Ya Think I’m Sphexy?
- A complex god with a god complex
- Peter Geach (1916 - 2013)
- Zombies: A Shopper’s Guide
- Churning out links
- Present perfect
- Back from Cologne
- Dude, where’s my Being?
- Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
November 2013
- Nietzschean natural law?
- Averroism and cloud computing
- FORTHCOMING: Scholastic Metaphysics
- Aquinas’s Fifth Way in Nova et Vetera
- Some questions on the soul, Part III
- Bloggers in arms (Updated)
- Oerter is a mensch
- Around the web
- Upcoming speaking engagements
October 2013
- Can machines beg the question?
- Some varieties of bullsh*t
- Do machines compute functions?
- Oerter on indeterminacy and the unknown
- Some questions on the soul, Part II
- Oerter and the indeterminacy of the physical
- Why Is There Anything At All? It’s Simple
- Leslie and Kuhn reply
- Philip Kitcher, bait-and-switcher
September 2013
- Natural law or supernatural law?
- Some questions on the soul, Part I
- Midwest Studies in Philosophy
- Man is Wolff to man
- The return of final causality
- Churchland on dualism, Part V
August 2013
- A gigantic book royalty check from nothing
- Hitting Bottum
- Out on the links
- Mad dogs and eliminativists
- The director as demiurge
- Eliminativism without truth, Part III
- NOW AVAILABLE: Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
- Eliminativism without truth, Part II
- Eliminativism without truth, Part I
- Links not to miss
July 2013
- Fifty shades of nothing
- Review of George
- Hart stopping
- NNLT in NCBQ
- Maudlin on time and the fundamentality of physics
- Avicenna’s argument from contingency, Part II
- He refutes you thus
- Cash for Cajuns
June 2013
- Extraordinarily ordinary
- Geach on worshipping the right God
- Mind and Cosmos roundup
- Nagel and his critics, Part X
- Body movin’, mind thinkin’
- Naturalism in the news
- Mackie’s argument from queerness
May 2013
- Hugon’s Cosmology
- Avicenna’s argument from contingency, Part I
- Neither nature alone nor grace alone
- Nagel and his critics, Part IX
- Commonweal on Nagel
- Context isn’t everything
- Epstein on conspiracies
- The theology of Prometheus
April 2013
- Discerning the thoughts and intents of Hart
- Around the web
- Sheer Hart attack
- What is an ad hominem fallacy?
- Craig on theistic personalism
- Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
- Philosophy on radio
- Reply to Kozinski
March 2013
- Nagel and his critics, Part VIII
- Rosenhouse keeps digging
- EvolutionBlog needs better Nagel critics
- Nagel and his critics, Part VII
- Review of Kurzweil
- Ferguson on Nagel
- Capital punishment lecture
- The whole man
- Spare not the Rod
- Philosophy on radio (UPDATED)
- A Christian Hart, a Humean head
- Back from Lafayette
February 2013
- Forgetting nothing, learning nothing
- Noë on the origin of life etc.
- Back from Blackfriars
- The limits of eliminativism
- New ACPQ article
- Around the net
- Stan Lee meets F. A. Hayek
- Upcoming lectures
- Craig versus Rosenberg
- Metaphysical middle man
January 2013
2012 112
December 2012
- Aquinas versus Newton?
- Trabbic on TLS
- Nagel and his critics, Part VI
- Claremont Christmas Reading
- Nagel and his critics, Part V
- Review of Gazzaniga
- Haldane on Aquinas, Anscombe, and much else
- Gonzaga lectures online
November 2012
- Nagel and his critics, Part IV
- Cardinal virtues and counterfeit virtues
- Nagel and his critics, Part III
- Letters, I get letters
- Review of Plantinga
- Deep breath
- The Incompetent Hack
- Chief Justice Ockham
- St. Jerome on the fall of Rome
- With readers at the ACPA in L.A.
- Jazz-funk phenomenologist
- Hey kids! Free casuistry!
October 2012
- Nagel and his critics, Part II
- The Charles De Koninck Project
- Nagel and his critics, Part I
- TLS auf Deutsch
- Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos
- Is [the] God [of classical theism] dead?
- Separated at birth?
- Whose nature? Which law?
- Who wants to be an atheist?
September 2012
- The Avengers and classical theism
- Was Aquinas a dualist?
- New Scholastic Meets Analytic Philosophy
- Justice or revenge?
- The divine intellect
- Objective and subjective
- Brain hacking and mind reading
August 2012
- Animals are conscious! In other news, sky is blue, water wet
- Think, McFly, think!
- The metaphysics of bionic implants
- Rediscovering Human Beings
- Philosophy on radio (UPDATED)
- The road from libertarianism
- Disching it out
- Briggs on TLS and tone
- Concretizing the abstract
July 2012
- Back from Sydney
- Philosophy of Mind on audio
- See you in Sydney
- The Aquinas Institute
- The road from atheism
- Cosmological argument roundup
- Classical theism roundup
- Oderberg updated
- Barr on quantum mechanics
- Atheistic teleology?
- Answering Atheism in Australia
June 2012
- Reply to Steve Fuller
- Sentient plants? Part II
- Sentient plants?
- McGinn on atheism
- Philosophy of nature and philosophy of [fill in the blank]
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)
- Oerter on motion and the First Mover
- Color holds and quantum theory
May 2012
- Natural theology, natural science, and the philosophy of nature
- Cinematic representation
- John Paul the Great Academy
- Oerter contra the principle of causality
- Aquinas on audio
- Review of Krauss
- Oerter on universals and causality
- Kripke contra computationalism
- New from Editiones scholasticae
- Contemporary Scholasticism
- Rosenberg roundup
April 2012
- Reading Rosenberg, Part X
- McInerny on TLS
- Steng operation
- Review of Atkins and Feyerabend now online
- Bruce and Van der Vossen on private property
- Links of interest
- Reading Rosenberg, Part IX
- Upcoming symposium
- Easter Triduum
- Fine on metaphysics and common sense
March 2012
- What is a soul?
- Radio Free Aquinas (Postponed)
- Kitcher and Albert on Rosenberg and Krauss
- Scruton on “neuroenvy”
- The Unliterate Hallq
- Natural law and the right to private property
- “Reason Rally”: Doubleplusgood newspeak for groupthink!
- Reading Rosenberg, Part VIII
- Links of interest
- Levering on TLS
February 2012
- Popper contra computationalism
- Hayek and Popper on the mind
- How to animate a corpse
- Cal Poly Pomona seminar
- The metaphysics of romantic love
- John Hick (1922-2012)
- Review of Atkins and Feyerabend
- Contraception, subsidiarity, and the Catholic bishops
- Reading Rosenberg, Part VII
January 2012
2011 126
December 2011
- Hitchens, Dawkins, and Craig
- Reading Rosenberg, Part V
- Links of interest
- Hayek and Popper
- My Christmas gift to you…
- The phenomenology of spirits
- Greene on Nozick on nothing
- Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
- Reading Rosenberg, Part IV
- Radio Free Aquinas
- Dawkins vs. Dawkins (Updated)
November 2011
- TLS in TMR
- TLS on radio
- Palmer on libertarianism
- TLS and formal causes
- What part of “nothing” don’t you understand?
- Broken Law (Updated)
- Reading Rosenberg, Part III
- Reading Rosenberg, Part II
- Crickets still chirping... (Updated)
October 2011
- Reading Rosenberg, Part I
- Magic versus metaphysics
- Tollefsen channels Rawls
- Review of Rosenberg
- Weekend reading
- Tollefsen on capital punishment
- Upcoming conferences
- Harper on original sin
- Best book titles ever
- On rehabilitation and execution
September 2011
- In defense of capital punishment
- Modern biology and original sin, Part II
- Pop culture roundup
- Some varieties of atheism
- Monkey in your soul?
- Ten years on
- Modern biology and original sin, Part I
- Movies, comic books, and sequential art
August 2011
- Vallicella on hylemorphic dualism, Part III
- Development versus decay
- Addendum
- A final word on Eric MacDonald
- Eric MacDonald’s assisted intellectual suicide
- Vallicella on hylemorphic dualism, Part II
- Argumentum ad Himmlerum
- The metaphysics of Vertigo
- Vallicella on hylemorphic dualism
- HPR on TLS
- On some alleged quantifier shift fallacies, Part III
July 2011
- Kenny on TLS in TLS
- Rosenhouse redux
- Grow up or shut up
- New ACPQ article
- Does morality depend on God? (Updated)
- So you think you understand the cosmological argument?
- Tom and Jerry
- A clue for Jerry Coyne
- On some alleged quantifier shift fallacies, Part II
- A first without a second
- Of note…
- Editiones scholasticae
June 2011
- On some alleged quantifier shift fallacies, Part I
- Routledge Handbook
- Nozick’s Tale of the Slave
- Meyer and fusionism
- Blogging note
- On Aristotle, Aquinas, and Paley: A Reply to Marie George
- O’Brien and Koons on metaphysics and morality
- Les Paul contra Scruton
- Singer “in a state of flux”
- Coyne on intentionality
May 2011
- Two, four, six, eight! Who do you reincarnate?
- Comments on comments
- Review of Examined Lives
- Mind-body problem roundup
- Leibniz’s Mill
- Gillespie on modernity
- Are you for real?
- Happy Anniversary, Bill
- Reply to Torley and Cudworth
April 2011
- Nature versus art
- Hunter on TLS
- Happy Birthday
- Easter Triduum
- Uncommon Descent update
- The God above God
- State Cows
- Uncommonly careless
- A reprint is not a reply
- A further thought on the “one god further” objection
- The “one god further” objection
- Descartes’ “trademark” argument
- Deadly unserious
March 2011
- Catholicism, conservatism, and capital punishment
- Heads ID wins, tails you lose
- Inevitable Scholasticism
- Unhinged Dissent
- Thomism versus the design argument
- Pasnau on the history of philosophy
- Razor Boy
- Beckwith contra Forrest
- Scientism roundup
- Liberal neutrality update
February 2011
- Live Action, lying, and natural law
- Can we make sense of the world?
- To a louse
- And boy, are my arms tired…
- Why are (some) physicists so bad at philosophy?
- UFL Conference at Notre Dame
- TLS at Gonzaga
- Putnam on causation, intentionality, and Aristotle
- Hot for Hayek
- TLS on radio (Updated)
- Oderberg on natural law
January 2011
2010 154
December 2010
- Unbroken and the problem of evil
- Hume, cosmological arguments, and the fallacy of composition
- Putting the Cross back into Christmas
- The Long Rain
- Haldane on Hawking
- Heil and Mumford on contemporary academic philosophy
- Even I don’t think it’s THAT good…
- Causal loops, infinite regresses, and information
- The latest on ID and Thomism
- Kaczor on abortion
- A is A
- The dreaded causa sui
- Plantinga’s ontological argument
November 2010
- Anselm’s ontological argument
- Reason Papers on Locke
- Trojan removal (Updated)
- Best of 2010
- Review of The Grand Design
- What counts as a lie?
- The murderer at the door
- There is no Santa clause
- Is it wrong to lie to HAL?
- Hayek and Keynes: The rematch
- Chastek and Coffey contra Kant
October 2010
- The catastrophic spider
- God, obligation, and the Euthyphro dilemma
- Fame is fleeting, babe!
- Harlan Ellison’s evil god
- Law’s “evil-god challenge”
- Classical theism, atheism, and the Godfather trilogy
- Reno and Beckwith on Aquinas
- Very informal fallacies
- God, man, and classical theism
- Philippa Foot (1920 – 2010)
September 2010
- Classical theism
- Tahko on Aristotelian metaphysics
- Philosophers’ kids say the darndest things
- Art and meta-art
- Order early and often
- Meta-sophistry
- Pop culture and the lure of Platonism
- The Metaphysics of Monk
August 2010
- To your health
- “Homicide bomber”
- Edwards on infinite causal series
- Goo goo ga ga
- Welcome LifeSiteNews readers
- Sold out!
- Dretske on meaning
- Eulogy for James F. Ross
- Twist ending
- Happy Consequentialism Day!
- Conceiving and hallucinating
- Some thoughts on the Prop 8 decision
- Fodor’s trinity
- While you’re web surfing…
July 2010
- The Twilight Zone
- Popper’s World 3
- Blogging note
- Pick-up lines from the philosophers
- James F. Ross (1931 – 2010)
- On “intuitions”
- When Frank jilted Mary
- Oderberg on ethics
- Back from Prague
June 2010
- Blogging note
- The T-Shirt’s coming next…
- Churchland on dualism, Part IV
- Hitchens versus Haldane
- Stoljar on intentionality
- Teleology in Philosophia Christi
- But is that a real definition or only a nominal one?
- Chomsky on the mind-body problem
- Henri Renard, S.J.
- Can philosophy be polemical?
- God and possible worlds
- Self-Promoter’s Bookshelf
- The early Wittgenstein on scientism
- Glamour profession
May 2010
- The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
- Davies on the New Atheism
- Under the mailbag
- The Metaphysics of The Fly
- Fight stereotypes!
- Generally speaking
- Davies on divine simplicity and freedom
- Oderberg on the mainstream media
- God, man, and masculinity
- ID versus A-T roundup
- Deus ex machina?
- Hayek and scientism
- Scholastic’s Bookshelf, Part IV (UPDATED)
April 2010
- The metaphysics of the Martini revisited
- Scotism and ID (UPDATED)
- ID, A-T, and Duns Scotus: A further reply to Torley
- Burtt online
- Scruton’s Gifford lectures
- Jordan Howard Sobel (1929-2010)
- Dembski rolls snake eyes
- First Things on AQUINAS
- Cudworth and Fuller respond
- ID theory, Aquinas, and the origin of life: A reply to Torley
- Antony Flew (1923-2010)
- I’m hip!
- Never again!
- VJ at UD on ID
- “Intelligent Design” theory and mechanism
- “Nothing but”
- The meaning of the Resurrection
- The meaning of the Passion
- Cardinal Ratzinger and the Murphy case
March 2010
- 2010 Thomistic Seminar
- 2010 Gifford Lectures
- “We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
- Stupak’s enablers?
- The New Philistinism
- Rota on causation in Aquinas
- Oderberg on the First Way
- Here's Hope for you, Mr. Obama
- Blogging note
- Recovering Sight after Scientism
- Stove on contemporary academic style
- New from John Haldane
- Blinded by Scientism
- From philosophy to misosophy
- Gee, I thought I was Harlan Ellison…
- Scholastic’s Bookshelf, Part III
- Mood enhancement
February 2010
- What’s black and white and misread all over?
- The Nightfly: Vatican approved!
- Mackie on ad hoc hypotheses
- Tuggy contra mysterianism
- Dawkins on omnipotence and omniscience
- Speaking from ignorance
- Trinity and mystery, Part II
- Trinity and mystery
- Scholasticism as Modern Philosophy
- Spaemann on teleology
- The Leiter side of OCD
- Plotinus contra modernity
January 2010
- Ralph McInerny (1929-2010)
- “Go to Thomas!”
- Plotinus on divine simplicity, Part III
- “Tried to Feser. Didn’t faze her!”
- Hayek and Keynes bust a rhyme
- Twilight of the Mad Men
- Beckwith on Roe v. Wade
- Plotinus on divine simplicity, Part II
- Plotinus on divine simplicity, Part I
- “I think we're on the verge of a major philosophical shift in biology”
- Fact or opinion?
- Great moments in New Atheist hypocrisy, Part 2,526
- The ethics of property
- The interaction problem, Part III