I recently read the book Unended Quest which is an intellectual autobiography of Karl Popper. Karl Popper is likely the most influential philosopher of science ever. The book is a good mix of details of his life, accounts of his interactions with some famous scientists and philosophers, and explanations of his own big ideas. I highly recommend it. One ...
Part IV of this series ended with somewhat of a cliffhanger. Marx and Freud seemed to think that religion arose through purely naturalistic processes. Not only that, but the aim of religion was not truth, but something less legitimate - for Marx it was an escape from the harsh reality of existence, and for Freud it was "wish fulfillment." ...
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. -Prov. 25:2, ESV Often when studying theology, especially some of the more controversial doctrines of Christianity, I can get pretty discouraged. Occasionally, it will get bad enough that I even begin to doubt the Christian faith as a whole. If Christians ...
In Part II, we looked at Plantinga's analogy between belief in God and belief in the existence of other minds. In this post we will look at some later work of Plantinga that also deals with the rationality of belief in God. Obviously, his earlier work could not tackle all the possible objections, and some of his work in epistemology since then ...
In this installment on the philosophy of free will, I will be discussing libertarianism, which is an incompatibilist position. In previous posts, I discussed mainly the compatibilist attempts to show that free will and determinism are both true. While this position has its share of problems, the reader will soon see that the libertarian position is not without ...
