Is God Omniscient?
The Person shares in the Divine as being made in the image of God. We too are free. We are co-creators with God; He in His macrocosm…
The Person shares in the Divine as being made in the image of God. We too are free. We are co-creators with God; He in His macrocosm…
Alan Turing invented the ideational basis of modern computers with his concept of a universal machine. The machine had a write/erase head and a strip of paper…
It is a common-place assumption that brains generate consciousness. The fact that brain damage, drug use, sleep deprivation, etc., impair thinking seems to confirm the brain’s generative…
In The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist writes that a creature like a bird needs two types of consciousness simultaneously. It needs to be able to…
In “The Illogicality of Determinism," I point out the absurdity and contradictions of arguing for determinism.¹ The sheer pointlessness of the exercise is staggering. The “determined” arguer…
Physical determinism is the notion that all events, including thoughts and actions, are the result of cause and effect. Each effect is the result of a prior…
Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem was inspired by David Hilbert’s question “Are the axioms of a formal system sufficient to derive every statement that is true in all…
Kurt Gödel[1] was a Platonist,[2] logician and mathematician who developed the intention of making a profound and lasting impact on philosophical mathematics. His next task was to…
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate that beauty…
Philosophers have a choice between originality and truth. When it comes to the human condition nearly every true thing that can be said about it has probably…
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke focuses on epistemology.* His most important aim was to know what reality was really like. Like many other scientists…
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
Many feminists describe the history of humanity as a male tyranny, oppressing and maltreating women at every opportunity. Their name for this is the “patriarchy;” a name…
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About. Warren Farrell. New York: AMACOM, 2005. Warren Farrell’s book Why Men Earn More and What Women…
Political correctness is an instrument of oppression and scapegoating most prominently used by academic and political elites and enforced by mainstream news outlets. It is authoritarian, conformist…