Tag: dualism
Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma
What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme.
Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield on Free Will
Materialists claim that neuroscience has demonstrated that free will is an illusion.
Redness Reconsidered: Materialism, Universals, and Abstract Objects of Thought
The question about the material/immaterial nature of abstract thought is crucial to the debate over the plausibility of materialism.
None Dare Call it Journalism
Whether the Times will discover the full scope of the threat is uncertain. No one at the Times has yet noticed, for example, that if you play the movie’s interview with Richard Dawkins backward, you can hear Ben Stein saying, “Bill Dembski is dead”
O’Leary Reviews Cardinal Schonborn’s Chance or Purpose?
I am often asked what to make of Christoph Cardinal Schonborn’s new book Chance or Purpose?Luckily, I can now point people to Denyse O’Leary’s spot-on review. Among the many highlights, O’Leary notes that