The thesis of determinism is one of the strangest theories promoted by many academic philosophers. Many determinists seem to think that they can assert the absence of…
Etymologically, perversion designates an overturning, a thorough subversion with respect to a proper telos, a natural course and end. To pervert an art is to turn it…
The pseudonymous “Robot Philosopher,” following Sam Harris, suggests that since we do not choose our preferences, we do not have free will. This is an odd line…
My apologies in advance for writing about humor in an unfunny way. Someone wrote once that in a certain prolonged analysis of humor (Freud?) there was not…
In our Age of Information, we are bombarded daily by answers forged to distract us from natural questions, questions we are born to ask. Technology does not…
“In 1800, half of all those born died as children; two centuries later, almost none did. More and more people who would not have survived in the…
Evolutionism is a “scientific theory”. By that we usually mean that it is a doctrine that abstracts “scientifically” data, or strictly quantifiable facts, without any concern (or…
In The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist writes that a bird, as with the rest of us, needs two types of consciousness simultaneously. It must be…
For decades, now, debates on “Science versus Religion” have remained by and large inconclusive.[1] Could this be due to the debates’ having been systematically framed conceptually by…
Sometimes, in a set of reflections, one needs to slow down and describe certain details with delicacy and fine attention; sometimes, though, summary strokes are needed. Here…
I thank the organizers for inviting me to discuss our theme, how Christian faith can inform friendships in the academy. As I begin, I would invite all…
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Joel Isaac. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Working Knowledge presents an institutional history of the “human…
At a 1932 conference on quantum mechanics it was suggested that physicists should not worry about what quantum mechanics indicates about the nature of reality and they…
“What is permanent in the history of mankind is not the symbols but man himself in search of his humanity and its order.” (E. Voegelin, Equivalents of…
