The NOUS Philosophy Club will host an event on Friday March 2, 2007 at 430pm in SS Room 235. I will present my paper: “Action Individuation in Ordinary Language.”
I encourage all of you to attend, and I offer anyone who attends the meeting participation points to be added to their grade. Below the fold I [...]
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NOUS meeting
Posted in WSU - Philosophy Department on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Fine-Tuning: A way around Darwin
Posted in Existence of God on February 19, 2007 | 9 Comments »
With Darwin’s theory of evolution it appears that the Design argument has taken a hit. It no longer seems that the only logical reason for life and the complexity of life is a designer. Darwin provided a way around; evolution. I would like to present a summary of the ‘fine-tuning’ argument. It is a newer version of [...]
Getting the Design Argument Off the Ground
Posted in Existence of God on February 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Hello to all of Professor Ulatowski’s students!
I’m honored by the invitation to blog about the Design Argument. The question is, do I have anything else to say? What didn’t I say in the article “The Design Argument?”
Well, a couple of things…..maybe things that aren’t philosophically relevant, but are politically relevant. Let’s go through some [...]
Aquinas’s Fourth Way
Posted in Existence of God on February 4, 2007 | 21 Comments »
In Summa Theologiae, Aquinas offers five arguments for God’s existence, commonly known as the “Five Ways,” and I’ll focus my discussion on the “Fourth Way.” I gather that the basic argument is:
There are differing degrees of perfection in things. (premise)
If things have differing degrees of perfection, then there is a supreme perfection to which other things approximate. (premise)
The supreme perfection [...]
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