Tag: Edward Feser

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle's Revenge, biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, Günter Bechly, immaterial agency, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, substances, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University}

Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 7, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Atheists Finding God, Ben Spencer, Big Bang, Christof Koch, cosmic microwave background radiation, Daniel Dennett, Edward Feser, English, Ex-Skeptic (podcast), France, Galen Strawson, genome, God the Science the Evidence, James Shapiro, Jana Harmon, materialists, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Nobel Prize, Olivier Bonnassies, origin of the universe, panpsychism, physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, Robert Wilson, Roman Catholics, United States, universe}

French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 7, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Daily Nous, Dustin Sigsbee, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, sea cucumber, sentient consciousness, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, animal species, astrophysicists, awareness, Dogs, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, Ethan Siegel, human mind, inner states, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, physical reality, physics, sentience, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Nagel}

What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, James Ross, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, retinal cells, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, bacteria, cognition, consciousness, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, evolution, folk psychology, glaciers, human consciousness, intelligence, Massimo Pigliucci, materialists, Monica Gagliano, Pandora’s box, Patricia Churchland, thought}

Plant Consciousness and the Darwinian Project

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

The forces Darwinism unleashed were surely bound to head in this direction. It was only a matter of time. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anger, Christof Koch, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, livestock, mind, moral choice, philosophers, soul, voice}

Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, dualism, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, illusion, intentionality, internalism, materialism, neuroscience, neuroscientists, physicalism, Riccardo Manzotti}

Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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No matter what terminology is chosen, the materialist project always and necessarily amounts to eliminating the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, biosphere, Brown University, cognitive dissonance, creation, creator, DNA, Edward Feser, evolution, evolutionary biology, faith and science, Genesis, Georgetown University, Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jesuits, John Haught, Kenneth Miller, life, materialism, molecular biology, monogenesis, Pope Benedict XVI, quantum indeterminacy, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, scientific materialism, Scripture, Stephen Barr, Teilhard de Chardin, theistic evolution, theistic evolutionists, theologians}

Shall We Baptize Darwin? A Catholic Biologist Reflects

_{Ann Gauger
April 18, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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Theistic evolutionists are baptizing a theory first composed by Darwin as a substitute for the doctrine of special Creation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Anselm, atheism, Augustinian Proof, Big Bang, Edward Feser, general relativity, ground of existence, ignorance, insanity, intelligent design, Necessary Existence, Ontological Argument, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas}

God Hypothesis: In Defense of Stephen Meyer’s Book Title

_{Michael Egnor
December 5, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

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What Dr. Meyer did was enter the atheist camp, take up their flawed tools, and defeat them with their own weapons. Read More ›