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New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›
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Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jupiter, south pole, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt.

The Universe Reflects a Mind

Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›
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“Emergence” and the Soul

Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind. Read More ›
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What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›
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Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›
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“Fully Realized” AI Will Remain Forever on the Horizon – And That’s a Good Thing

The human mind, unlike the human brain, is an immaterial entity, thus unrealizable by a material artifact like a computer. Read More ›
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Neuroscientist Michael Egnor on Thomas Aquinas and “A Map of the Soul”

Patients missing large parts of their brain tissue can lead normal lives because the material, the tissue, is not all there is to us. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Robots: When Evolutionary Materialists Admit that Their Own Worldview Fails

One section in materialist Edward Slingerland's book is titled "We Are Robots Designed Not to Believe That We Are Robots." Read More ›

AAUP Responds on Academic Freedom

Gary Rhoades at AAUP responded to my original post. My own response is below the fold.

Dear Mr. Crowther,

Apparently patience is not one of your stronger virtues, at least not in this case. If you were really interested in my response, or in the position of the AAUP, you might have had the courtesy to give me a reasonable amount of time to respond to your letter below (which came to me at 3:33p.m. EST today, whereas your posting below was 1:24 p.m today, though the time zone is not posted).

Upon returning to my emails late this afternoon, after addressing some other pressing matters earlier in the afternoon, I come to find that you have already posted the following on your organization’s website:

He pastes in this blog post.

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