invisible Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 31, 2022 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyScience Tagged , Aristotle, change, continuity, football, Mass, meditation, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, shape Philosopher: I’m Neither Me, Myself, Nor I…Yet I Give Interviews! Michael Egnor August 31, 2022 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science 4 Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger tells his interviewer “Nobody ever had or was a self. Selves are not part of reality.” Read More ›
moonlight-1 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 15, 2019 CategoriesAstronomyFaith & ScienceMetaphysicsPhilosophy Tagged , __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, Big Crunch, causation, change, cosmological arguments, existence, First Way, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, lunar phases, Moon, moonlight, Necessary Existence, potency, reflection, sun, Third Way, Thomas Aquinas Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight Michael Egnor October 15, 2019 Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy 6 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 ›
1280px-Mel_nest_stack_of_books Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 4, 2019 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, essential causal chain, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books Michael Egnor October 4, 2019 Faith & Science 12 Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›
oak tree Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 21, 2017 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyPhysical SciencesScience Tagged , __edited, Adam Frank, Aristotle, change, convergent evolution, David Klinghoffer, electron, form, individuation, intelligibility, materialism, matter, mind-body problem, quantum mechanics, science, Werner Heisenberg What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective Michael Egnor July 21, 2017 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science 7 Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 26, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsSociologyTechnology Tagged , __tedited, anarchy, anti-human, anti-human exceptionalism, anti-humanism, biology, biotechnology, brain implant, change, conservatism, CRISPR, cybernetics, cyborgs, disguised religion, divine, equality, fascism, Futurism, gene editing, gods, human dignity, human evolution, Internet, microchips, modern times, nuclear weapons, radicalism, robotics, scientism, sexual ethics, superheroes, technology, transhumanism, Zoltan Istvan Transhumanists Want to Be Gods Wesley J. Smith April 26, 2016 Bioethics, Sociology, Technology 4 It is always fun to see what our resident technology-worshipping religious fanatics are up to. Read More ›
