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Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part Three for Supporters)

January 23, 2022 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

We're concluding our treatment of Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), focusing on dialogue 6 where M. says why a proof of the existence of the external world isn't possible, yet we should believe it anyway on the basis of "revelation," which means both Biblical (the Bible talks about things created) but also the "natural revelation" that sensation itself  Continue Reading …

Saints and Simulators: Did Bostrom Prove the Existence of God?

January 24, 2019 by Chris Sunami 5 Comments

This post is the introduction to a new series here on the Partially Examined Life blog: "Saints and Simulators," a look at cutting-edge modern technology, and its implications for both religion and philosophy. We'll be both beginning and ending the series with a deliberately provocative question: Did Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, provide the first  Continue Reading …

A Philosopher of Religion No Longer

September 7, 2010 by Wes Alwan Leave a Comment

Philosopher of Religion Keith Parson has had a change of heart (while he once took the arguments of theists seriously enough to argue against them, no longer): Over the past ten years I have published, in one venue or another, about twenty things on the philosophy of religion. I have a book on the subject, God and Burden of Proof, and another criticizing Christian  Continue Reading …

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