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July 2024

July 11, 2024

Did ChatGPT concede that there exists a First Cause?

In a 2002 debate book he did with J. J. Smart--Atheism and Theism--the Scottish philosopher...

April 2024

April 20, 2024

Scientists discover animals sentient; Aquinas knew already

From an article entitled, " Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

My review of Michael Ward’s After Humanity, a guide to C. S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man

Many readers are familiar with C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man. Last summer Word...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Why Is Sexual Assault Special?: Transactional Sex and Sacred Intuitions

My essay, "Why Is Sexual Assault Special?: Transactional Sex and Sacred Intuitions," was just published...

March 2021

March 13, 2021

My Latest on the Same God Question in Book Honoring the Jewish Philosopher David Novak

I am grateful to be a contributor to a festschrift honoring the Jewish philosopher David Novak: The Achievement...

December 2020

December 13, 2020

Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020)

MIT philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson died on November 20, 2020 at the age of 91....

October 2020

October 05, 2020

Without the humanities, STEM and other professional disciplines don’t actually have a point

In my first year philosophy classes I often ask my students why they are going...

September 2020

September 11, 2020

Gotta Serve Somebody? Religious Liberty, Freedom of Conscience, and Religion as Comprehensive Doctrine

That's the title of an article I recently published in the journal, Studies in Christian...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

An important new blog on moral and social issues

My friend, David Boonin, a philosopher at the University of Colorado (where he also serves...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

My chapter in the new book, Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

Northern Illinois University Press has just published Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

Interesting philosophy/news website

Don't know why I had not heard about the Daily Nous. But here it is.

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Dr. J., Religion, and the Bigotry of Superficial Sophistication

That's the title of my most recent column over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here are some...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Sandy Hook, Huckabee, and the Inscrutability of Evil

That's the title of my recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff On the Conduct of the Christian Philosopher

Very wise words by two giants in Christian philosophy: (HT: Evangelical Philosophical Society blog). The...

April 2012

April 17, 2012

Alvin Plantinga: “Science and Religion – Where the Conflict Really Lies”

This is a lecture Al Plantinga gave at Biola University about 18 months ago. He...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

“Potential Persons” in the “After-Birth Abortion” Article

This is my latest over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it begins: As readers...

March 14, 2012

HBU starting M.A. in philosophy program

Houston Baptist University is starting an M.A. program in philosophy. Given the quality of its...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

Transworld Irony (new term)

Transworld Irony (or TWI): It is possible that in every possible world there exists at...

December 03, 2011

2011 Synthese article may be downloaded for free through December 31, 2011

I just found out this afternoon that my 2011 Synthese article, "Or We Can Be...

November 2011

November 08, 2011

Dignity Never Been Photographed: Scientific Materialism, Enlightenment Liberalism, and Steven Pinker

That is the title of an article I published in the Summer 2010 issue of...

November 06, 2011

The Argument From Creating Brainless Children

In a chapter I recently published-- "The Human Being, A Person of Substance: A Reply...

October 2011

October 17, 2011

Government Forms (or Deforms) Your Soul

That is the title of an article I published last year (vol. 21, no. 5,...

October 08, 2011

The Human Being, a Person of Substance

That's the title of a chapter I recently published in the book, Persons, Moral Worth,...

August 2011

August 15, 2011

C. Stephen Evans on Kierkegaard

My Baylor colleague, C. Stephen Evans, was interviewed earlier this week on KGO radio in...

August 05, 2011

Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” at Forty

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. It is adapted...

August 02, 2011

August 3 Symposium on the 40th anniversary of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”

Tomorrow, August 3, I will be at the University of Colorado in Boulder participating in...

July 2011

July 16, 2011

Aristotle, Ethics and God

May 2011

May 27, 2011

A Second Look at “First Things”

That is the title of my recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. It is adapted...

May 13, 2011

From tomorrow’s New York Times: Intelligent Design Debate Ensnares the Journal “Synthese”

That is the title of an article that will be published in tomorrow's New York...