Sitemap - 2024 - Philosophy in Progress

Gunfire Tonight!

Too Many Lawyers in Government

The Ersatz Eternity of the Past

From the B-Theory of Time to Eternalism

What I Like About Wittgenstein

Does Matter Think?

A Strange Experience

Grace

Is Heaven Real?

Religious Liberty and David Brooks

The MILITANT Defends Religious Liberty!

When Politics Becomes Like Philosophy (2024 Update)

Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Democrats

The Scariest Passage in Kant . . .

No Entity without Identity

Rise and Shine with Manny

Jack Kerouac Went Home in October

Can Federalism Save Us?

Moral Community and Civil War

No Alternative to (Classical) Liberalism

Life's Path

Is Religion Escapist?

Religion and Anthropomorphism

Books or Eternal Life?

Are the Souls of Brutes Subsistent?

9/11

'Broken' and Other Examples of First-Grade English

Is the Enlightenment the Problem?

An Impediment to Meditation

A Test for the Religious Sensibility

Mysticism with Monica

Philosophy and Christianity

No Takers Without Makers

The Left's Verbal Theft

Signposts on the Way to the Insane Asylum

How Reasonable is it to Rely on Reason Alone?

Physicalist Christology? Notes on Merricks

Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone

On Reconciling Creatio Ex Nihilo with Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit

Do We Love the Person or Only Her Attributes?

Kierkegaard on Immortality

On Death: Objective and Subjective Views

Contemplating Suicide?

Mortalism

Near-Death Experiences

Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos

No Entity without Identity

Sam Harris on Rational Mysticism, Meditation . . .

This Morning's Meditation

Why a Philosopher Should Meditate

Two Worries about Meditation

Can What is Impossible to Achieve be an Ideal for Us?

What Exists Exists

Is There a Right to Health Care?

Plato, Power, and Existence

Ambiguity, Vagueness, Generality, Disambiguation

How to Roast Yourself in Five Different Ways

Of DEI and the Devil

Searle, Dennett, Zombies

Could there have been nothing at all?

The Problem of Consciousness: Galen Strawson's Non-Solution

Dennett on the Consequence Argument Against Compatibilism

Notes on Van Inwagen on Modal Epistemology

Michael Walzer on Religion

Is the Modal Ontological Argument Rationally Compelling?

Why Physical Culture?

Over-Belief and Romans 1: 18-20

Four Kinds of Ontological Argument

Is Hegel the Protestant Aquinas?

The Spook Stuff Chronicles

On Climate 'Theology'

Intentionality in Lock and Keys?

Skeptical and Credulous

God as Uniquely Unique

Earth Day 2024

Social Utility and the Value of Pure Inquiry

On Relevance in Philosophy Education

What is Fascism?

The Psychology of the Pollyanna . . .

Trial of the Century?

Bars Philosophers Opened on being Denied Tenure

Edmund Husserl, Knight of Reason

A Cure for Infatuation

Good Societies and Good Lives

Why We Need Philosophy

Edith Bone (1889-1975)

A Comparison of the Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and in Religion

Ayn Rand's Misunderstanding of Kant

Three Axes of Political Conflict

What to do if a cop stops you

Richard Peck, Seeker of Lost Gold

Alan Dershowitz, Thomas Nagel, David Benatar

The Never-Trump Mentality

Pasta Puttanesca

Closer to the Grave, Farther from Birth

Lev Shestov on the Fall of Man

America First

Leftists Regularly Abuse Language

Topical Insanity

Linguistic Smuggling

Idolatry, Desire, Buddha, Causation, and Malebranche

Nicolai Hartmann on Søren Kierkegaard

A Quasi-Kierkegaardian Poke at Paglia, Catholic Pagan

What is Wrong with Illegal Immigration?

Pet Love as Idolatry?

A Love of Life Inordinate and Idolatrous?

Soloveitchik on Proving the Existence of God

Theistic Religious Belief and What Inclines Me to It

Open Borders?

God, Evil, Matter, and Mind

The Greatest Risk We are Taking

The Politics of Abortion

Nagel on Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear of Religion

Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths

On Strictu Dictu and Holus Bolus

Third Parties

The End of Moderation

On 'Over-Represent'

On the Gender-Neutral Use of 'Man'

Is Atheism Intellectually Respectable?

Wolff on Anti-Natalism: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Leftist Activist

Is it Ever Legitimate to Question Motives?

Political Argumentation and Political Evolution

Extremism and Leftist Projection: The Border

Political Action and the Principle of Le Meiux est l'Ennemi du Bien

Citizenry, Government, and Firearms

Are Most Terrorists Muslims?

The Greatest Temptation

Is the Real a Tricycle?