Tag: David Hume
That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards.
Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism
Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion.
The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin?
Beauty Leads Us Home
Why is the world a beautiful place and why does it touch me?
Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”
Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems.