When I first got Plantinga’s latest book, I was a little unsure of what to say about the version of evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) he presents there. I’ve long been irked by Plantinga’s apparent lack of curiosity about what scientists who work on the evolution of the mind would say about his argument. On [...]
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Great Christian thinkers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 27, 2011
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I’ve previously written, in reference to Ed Feser: I agree that Leprechaunology is not a great analogy for the work of Aquinas or Leibniz. But it’s easy to suggest better analogies: how about Spinozism or Hegelianism? I’d be surprised if Feser took either of those doctrines terribly seriously. The dirty little secret of philosophy is [...]
What is objective morality anyway?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 23, 2011
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I’m not a huge Michael Ruse fan. Scratch that, I’m not any kind of Michael Ruse fan. However, after seeing a friend criticize this for supposedly being consistent about moral realism/anti-realism, I’m starting to wonder if Ruse has a point about morality. This is because there are several different questions we could be talking about [...]
I’ll take Alvin Plantinga over John Haught any day
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 22, 2011
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Jerry Coyne, last week: Alvin Plantinga, like John Haught, is regarded as a sophisticated and serious theologian. (Although he’s formally a Christian philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, he’s published lots of books defending God, engaging in apologetics, and so on, so there’s little doubt he qualifies as a theologian.) This made me wince. [...]
Plantinga’s inexcusable faults (review of Where The Conflict Really Lies)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 21, 2011
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I don’t expect Plantinga’s fans to ever totally agree with my negative assessment of Plantinga. My disagreements with them are too big. For one thing, I assume most of Plantinga’s fans think that what academic philosophers do is generally worthwhile, where as I don’t think that. But I hope that even fans of academic philosophy [...]