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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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 [...]
Neuroscience and religious experience
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 7, 2011
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In the So what do people want me to write about? David Ellis asked: Anything on the psychology of religion. Lately I’m more interested in knowing more about why people believe irrational things than in dissecting plainly bad arguments. Which was followed by Andy Scicluna saying: Gotta go with Ellis. A lot of Theists nowadays [...]
Ignorance: Comparing Dawkins and Plantinga
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 29, 2010
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A good chunk of my blogging over the next few weeks will be following up my post on leaving philosophy for neuroscience, particularly my comment about the worthwhileness of philosophy. Among other things, I’m planning on doing a (likely multi-part) review of Gary Gutting’s book What Philosophers Know, which I had mentioned in the previous [...]