Tag: Baruch Spinoza

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 16, 2026

Categories
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, animism, Baruch Spinoza, consciousness, Edward Feser, electrons, eliminative materialism, explanatory gap, fungi, Hedda Hassel Mørch, living cells, materialism, panpsychism, plants, principle of sufficient reason, Sam Kimpton-Nye, scientific method}

Does This Philosophical View Solve the Problem of Eliminative Materialism?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 16, 2026

Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that everything is conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Adam, Anil Seth, animals, Baruch Spinoza, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, David Chalmers, earth, eliminative materialism, evolution, Genesis, hard problem of consciousness, heavens, humans, inanimate matter, Karl Popper, matters, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuroscientists, New York University, Noema, philosophers, soul, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn, Tim Bayne}

Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

5}

Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 29, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Christianity Today, civilization, cultural Christianity, Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Mona Lisa, Richard Dawkins, Tom Holland}

To Save Civilization, Will “Cultural Christianity” Suffice?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 29, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Casey Luskin, Flat Earth myth, Galileo Galilei, history of science, humanity, ID the Future, Inquisition, Judaism, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, revisionist history, Science and Faith in Dialogue, theology, universe}

Examining the Legacy of Baruch Spinoza in the History of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 2, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Join host and geologist Casey Luskin and historian of science Michael Keas for a lively conversation puncturing a series of anti-Christian myths. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Antony Flew, Baruch Spinoza, Cornell University, Fred Hoyle, John Horgan, Niels Bohr, Peter Atkins, Richard Feynman, There Is a God, Werner Heisenberg}

Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 7, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Baruch Spinoza, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, German, quantum mechanics, static universe}

When Einstein Met Lemaître

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 7, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe. Read More ›

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Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Casey Luskin, Christianity, conflict myth, Cosmos (series), faith, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, ID the Future, Inquisition, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, podcast}

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

_{Science & Culture
March 23, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Arthur Schopenhauer, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwinism, David Hume, doubt, evolution, faith, intellectuals, Ludwig Feuerbach, novels, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

_{Neil Thomas
March 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

4}

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, COVID-19, Darwinian materialism, Humanize, intelligent design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, Wesley Smith}

Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 24, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Read More ›