Month: January 2026
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A Historical Bibliography of Philosophy of Religion (according to LLMs, edited by humans)
This was generated by LLMs with a few additions and corrections by me (and you, I hope). I looked it over and corrected anything I thought wrong and improved anything needing improvement; but I cannot vouch that it is absolutely right. Philosophers and theologians! Please look over the figures you know about. Please post corrections…
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Larry Sanger, Essays on Free Knowledge
Larry Sanger, Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge (Sanger Press, 2020). epub – mobi – pdf [more…] Username Password * Remember Me Forgot Password
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Reading 1: Plato’s Timaeus
Plato, Timaeus 17a–48b (up to the end of the creation of man and the parts of the soul and sense organs; the introduction of “necessity” is a good place to stop) Due: Friday, March 6, 2026 Topic: cosmology Obtain: buy ($5 Kindle edition is worth it just for the notes by Andrew Gregory; Oxford World’s Classics edition, trans.…
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Should we affirm sola fide?
Note: This essay on the nature of faith and salvation was originally posted as part of a much longer series. Because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did not get as much attention as I would wish. So I am now re-posting it, and will continue posting other answers to…
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A note on NPOV, ledes, and the erasure of dissent
The following comment originally appeared on a Wikipedia talk page. Posted on X: please retweet. I looked again at Wikipedia’s Gaza genocide article and, as I said last year, I don’t believe it follows Wikipedia’s standards for NPOV. Here are some reasons for my position: The first full statement in the article that admits that…
