Category: Metaphysics | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Reductionism, Veritas Forum, William A. Dembski}

Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

_{Michael Flannery
November 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›

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Date
November 3, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, artificial intelligence, computers, dystopia, George Gilder, human intelligence, ID the Future, Jay Richards, John Searle, machine learning, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Skynet}

Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI

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November 3, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 16, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, Edward Feser, Etienne Gilson, Five Ways, Jacques Maritain, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy}

Reading Suggestions for Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 16, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Our perspective is supported by a rigorous and elegant metaphysical framework, which began with Plato and particularly Aristotle. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, causation, change, existence, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, Moon, potency, sun, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, bias, cat, Christianity, dog, essence, existence, faith, kittens, reality, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns, Venn diagram}

Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 30, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, inference, Islam, Jerry Coyne, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Saint Augustine, Siberia, Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Hawking, Summa Theologica, theism, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, totalitarianism}

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
September 30, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Scientific Reasoning

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The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2019

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, Edward Feser, essence, ID the Future, mechanistic view, Michael Egnor, nature, particles, podcast, purpose, science, scientists, teleology}

Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature

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July 17, 2019

Biology, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, atheism, bonobos, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, multiverse, neuroscience, Paris, professors, satire, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

_{David Klinghoffer
May 28, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›