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April 2012

April 29, 2012

Beware of [YA Dystopias] Bearing Gifts?

This post contains vague spoilers for the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm speaking in generalities about...

April 22, 2012

A Hell of a Review

I received a review copy of Tripp York's book (The Devil Wears Nada) free of charge, but...

April 21, 2012

“What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard”

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 19, 2012

Irrational with Respect to What?

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman draws on a lot of empirical studies where...

April 18, 2012

Quasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 16, 2012

When Do You Reject Your Intuitions?

A while ago, a commenter emailed me to ask if I could recommend any books...

April 10, 2012

Well, you asked for me to blockquote things I agreed with…

People who commented on this post last week might want to be careful what they...

April 09, 2012

Granny Weatherwax and Discworld [Index Post]

When I first started this blog, I was casting about for a few types of...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Caution! Philosophy in Progress.

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

March 02, 2012

Epistemology Thought Experiment on Prime Time TV

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

January 2012

January 22, 2012

Lewis Trounces Freud

I've already blogged once about reading Freud's Last Session, a two person play that is...

January 16, 2012

[Feser] Stuck in the Map-Territory Gap

As promised yesterday, this is the kickoff of my analysis of and questions about Edward...

January 15, 2012

Reading a Book I’d Never Write

I've just finished Sara Miles's memoir Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion, but I don't...

January 15, 2012

Feser’s The Last Superstition [Index Post]

I ran into a Dominican at an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences event...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

A Good Humored Review

This review is part of Patheos's book club for Father James Martin's Between Heaven and...

November 2011

November 06, 2011

Made for Another World?

While travelling this weekend, I finally got around to reading Freud's Last Session - a...

October 2011

October 07, 2011

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Man, did I pick an auspicious time to transition to Patheos; it’s Ada Lovelace Day....

September 2011

September 13, 2011

Living Safely in a Fantastical Universe

So, to return to the promise I made you on Thursday, here’s a quick meditation...

August 2011

August 15, 2011

Greedy Self-Denial

Sorry for the delay in Sunday's Good Book posts! A Song of Ice and...

May 2011

May 29, 2011

Who Gets to Use Lewis’s Excuse?

Now that college is over, and I'm wrapping up my guest stint at Daylight Atheism,...

April 2011

April 10, 2011

Good Fantasy Makes Good Philosophy

Over spring break, during some of the time I should have spent on my senior...

March 2011

March 20, 2011

Trying to Will Your Beliefs (A Case Study)

There's been a fair amount of discussion on this blog lately about whether people can...

March 13, 2011

David Brooks and the Social Automaton

After reading my slam on David Brooks's The Social Animal, Dylan had some objections: "Other...

February 2011

February 27, 2011

Two (Much Caveated) Recommendations

Today's installment of the Sunday's Good Book series of reviews was meant to be...

February 13, 2011

“I was born and bred in a paradox patch!”

I've been writing a series of posts on the intellectual attraction I've felt to G.K....

February 06, 2011

A Few Stories Worth Their Salt

After hearing today's readings at Mass, I wanted to share a favorite non-fiction book with...

February 05, 2011

An Attraction to Orthodoxy (Series)

As part of my Sunday's Good Book series, I posted about G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and...

January 2011

January 23, 2011

Strobel’s One-Sided Cases

I’m reviewing Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence...

January 21, 2011

7 Quick Takes (1/21/11)

--1-- Earlier this week, I posted the lengthy list of books that readers recommended in...

January 19, 2011

The Hefty, Crowdsourced Syllabus

Many of the people who replied to my New Year's Challenge to change my opinions...