Siris

Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. I'd wanted to do something nice on this blog for the occasion, particularly since I missed ...

I jotted this down some time ago; it's a sketch of one particular way in which people claim to be rational without showing it. The offen...

[Note: It occurs to me that I should give a caveat for this. You should read the quiz in Tiemann's commentary first; reading it straight...

John Chuckman : Religion does not belong in public life, and Stephen Harper's efforts to drag it in, says a great deal about him to thos...

A very odd article by Daniel Dennett at CHR. I found this passage particularly puzzling: In Marjoe, the 1972 documentary about the bogus ev...

Timothy Sandefur at "Postive Liberty" looks at Akhil Amar's America's Constitution . I've always liked what I've r...

Bill Vallicella at the Maverick Philosopher has a nice post on negative existentials , which is exactly right, I think. I find it interestin...