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Showing posts with label naturalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naturalism. Show all posts
Saturday, May 14, 2016

A review of Sean Carroll's The Big Picture: Part I

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Physicist Sean Carroll's new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself   was released this past T...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Are space and time necessary?

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The other day I was commenting over at DebunkingChristianity —usually not a good idea—regarding whether or not the universe could be sai...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Why science cannot (ever) explain the existence of the universe

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Can the universe account for its own existence? Can we find, within physics and cosmology, the reason for why physical reality exists at...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

The argument from contingency

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The cosmological argument for the existence of God has taken many different forms for hundreds of years. However, the version that I tak...
Friday, December 19, 2014

The mind is what the brain does?

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I recently ran across this post by neurologist Dr. Steve Novella over at his blog Neurologica . The post is basically a rebuttal to neu...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Naturalism and falsifiability

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Metaphysical naturalism is the position that the natural universe is all that exists, and a common corollary of adherence to naturalism is...
Monday, September 8, 2014

On reductionism

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All the talk on reductionism as of late has kept my mind quite occupied. So occupied, in fact, that I felt the need to devote an entire ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Essentialism and reductionism

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Mike D over at The Aunicornist has, once again, devoted a couple of posts to refuting the metaphysics of Thomism. Since I am myself a Th...