Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
NOTE: Today we begin a two part series by Dr. Edward Feser exploring questions about science, philosophy, causality, and radioactive decay. We'll share the second part on Wednesday. At the...
View ArticleCausality and Radioactive Decay
NOTE: Today we finish our two part series by Dr. Edward Feser exploring questions about science, philosophy, causality, and radioactive decay. You can read the first part here. Now, if there...
View ArticleHow Should We Speak of God? A Response to Daniel Linford
Last December, an article by Daniel Linford entitled "Do Atheists Reject the Wrong Kind of God? Not Likely" appeared at Scientia Salon. Certain recent "popular books,” according to Linford, have...
View ArticleMarriage, Natural Law, and the Truth of Sexual Ethics
Gary Gutting is a Notre Dame philosophy professor who thinks that what counts about arguments is whether they “work.” And so his complaint against natural-law arguments for Catholic teachings about...
View ArticleWhy Aquinas’ Argument for God Succeeds and Others Fall Short
NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series. The second part will be shared on Wednesday. Does God exist? Readers here at Strange Notions are well aware that throughout the centuries there have been...
View ArticleThe Splendor of Thomistic Theism
NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series. Read part 1 here. With the accidentality and priority of being for sensible things now in place, there is only one preliminary metaphysical principle...
View ArticleLove, Tolerance, and the Making of Distinctions
I recently wrote a piece on Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner. I argued that the manner in which Jenner spoke of his transition reflected a Gnostic anthropology, which is repugnant to...
View ArticleIs a Proof Bad If It Fails to Convince Everyone?
Some atheists will object to arguments for God by observing, "If a particular proof for God is so strong, why doesn't it convince everyone?" This objection is perhaps the most prevalent, and the...
View ArticleDo Theological Claims Need to be Falsifiable?
Antony Flew’s famous 1950 article “Theology and Falsification” posed what came to be known as the “falsificationist challenge” to theology. A claim is falsifiable when it is empirically testable—that...
View ArticleWhy Modern Physics Does Not Refute Thomistic Philosophy
Today some claim that modern physics evinces that Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy is an archaic myth that has outlived its credibility. They say things like, “If Thomist metaphysics contradicts modern...
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