Category: Philosophy
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“There is none else beside him”
This is an essay on whether there are multiple gods, according to the Bible. Suffice it to say that there were strong opinions about the May 18 previous version of this; the following
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Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum: Update and Invitation
We are well into our study of Aristotle in the Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum (STP), my reading group in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. This is hard, but essential to our task. But, you
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What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?
This is the longest answer I wrote, in the first month of writing for Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum, commenting on Plato’s Laws, Book X, 893b–899d. We’re about to start Aristotle’s two arguments for a Prime
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Why should Christians read philosophy?
Yesterday, I launched an online seminar in which we will read a bunch of philosophy of religion, as well as the more philosophical and apologetic parts of theology. When I told my wife
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In Praise of Small Bars of Soap
There is a kind of person—and mood, and outlook on life—for which slow-to-disappear bars of soap are a problem. You know what I mean. You start a new bar of soap. A week
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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
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Plan for a Public Notebook
Some background My strange career began with academia and a little college teaching, and then a series of knowledge and education startups and consulting stints. I have rarely been short of interesting opportunities,
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On W. L. Craig on whether God can learn
A friend of mine has pressed me to respond to William Lane Craig’s defense of Molinism, so here is a small contribution. Recently, I found an occasion to do so. Craig’s X.com team
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Zobot: A Third Kind of Self-Sustaining Being
Philosophy and theology posit two kinds of self-sustaining beings: God, who is eternally self-sustaining, depending on nothing outside himself for his being; and living beings or organisms, consisting of many interoperative systems that
