Ed Feser has a great dissection of the “Nothing but…” approach to philosophy and science. And that is, of course, exactly what the “mechanical” conception of the world that the early modern philosophers put in place of the Scholastics’ Aristotelian philosophy of nature made possible. The world was reconceived as a machine or collection of… Continue reading
Month: April 2010
Tom Shaller is not impressed by Jonah Goldberg.
All I can say is, I love a philosopher who sticks up for his profession. Here’s Massimo, not only on Harris’s overweaning scientism, but taking on the usual spear carriers who show up in the com boxes.
Happy 30th Anniversary to Tor Books.
Josh Roshenau, with further thoughts on why gadfly Ben Stiller Sam Harris is turning out to be a real crank.