The philosophy that came after “the cogito” is very debatable, but you have to love how Descartes gets there, his deep skepticism, and the foundation of one’s thinking self. Philosophy at its best, before it got utterly unreadable. But in Persons and Bodies, Lynne Baker includes an argument that would modify Descartes’ ergo sum.
Baker’s Constitution [...]
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Plantinga’s Reductionisms
Posted in Philosophy, tagged consciousness, dennet, dualism, mind, plantinga, soul on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Alvin Plantinga’s essay “Materialism and Christian Belief”¹ argues for dualism by attempting to show that a material thing can’t think. He writes: “The difficulty for materialism is this: how does it happen, how can it be, that an assemblage of neurons, a group of material objects firing away has content?” Plantinga, in part through Leibniz, [...]
Morality, Postscript
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, tagged atheism, moral argument, christopher hitchens, poythress, william buckley, cornelius van til on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Vern Poythress, in Redeeming Science, says:
Even in their rebellion, people continue to depend on God being there. They show in action that they continue to believe in God. Cornelius Van Til compares it to an incident he saw on a train, where a small girl sitting on her grandfather’s lap slapped him in the face. The [...]
The Argument from Morality
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, tagged apologetics, william lane craig, moral argument, existence of god, natural theology on November 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think there are a number of good arguments for the existence of God, but I have some difficulty with a couple of them, and they’re often overused by sincere but ill-informed enthusiasts. The ontological argument, for example, just doesn’t work for me, but it’s possible that it’s an iron-clad proof and I simply don’t [...]
The Center of Christian Faith
Posted in Hermeneutics, Philosophy, tagged bibliology, epistemology, faith, holy spirit, religious experience on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many apologists argue that, next to the existence of God, Christians should hold the deity and resurrection of Jesus at the very center of their belief system over against any particular bibliology. I think this position comes from the confluence of Reformed epistemology and the difficult issues of biblical veridicality. If an inerrant Bible is [...]
Divine Self-disclosure
Posted in Hebrew Bible, Philosophy, tagged ehyeh asher ehyeh, I AM, ontology, yhwh on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”—Exodus 3.14 NRSV
Universally acknowledged as a curious if not enigmatic phrase, ehyeh asher ehyeh might be understood, broadly, in two different ways: a statement about God’s existence, or a statement [...]
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