Predictable…
John (catshark) Pieret on Jerry Coyne’s latest deep thoughts.
Category: philosophy
Quote of the Day, or maybe the Whole Week
John Wilkins: “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.”
Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
There was no afternoon session today, so I took an hour after lunch to visit Heffer’s on Trinity Street near King’s College. I went in thinking I’d quite like to buy Christopher Lee’s revised autobiography. But they didn’t have it. So, I wandled downstairs to the philosophy section. Ed Feser will be happy to know… Continue reading Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Thus, the New Atheists’ favorite argument turns out to be just a version of the old argument from infinite regress: If you try to explain the existence of the universe by asserting God created it, you have solved nothing because then you are obliged to say where God came from, and so on ad infinitum,… Continue reading
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