Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
I just finished a “prototype” of my final paper for my Modern/Contemporary Philosophy class answering the question that has plagued modern philosophy in the West, “How, given the advent and advance of ‘the modern scientific worldview,’ can we capture ‘the fact of value:’ the fact that we all have and act from ideas about how […]
I recently completed a semester-long research project for my professional writing capstone course. I read various texts dealing with post-colonialism, rhetoric, and colonialism and had to compose a 12-15 page paper dealing with one or more of the texts I had read combining outside research and material from the texts in order to make a […]
First in a series of essays that I’m going to post this week is a discussion of ‘true religion’ as seen from the character of Philo in David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. As an alternative to commonly practiced religion which Philo calls ‘vulgar superstition,’ Philo proposes a ‘true religion’ that is free of superstition, zealotry, […]
Video is here. Recently, Dr. Oz invited noted skeptic and advocate of science-based medicine Dr. Steve Novella to be on his show. Novella frequently investigates and critically discusses “alternative medicine” (which he considers to be a false category and an improper term). Novella, in this show, says that alternative medicine is an artificial category that exists […]
I’ve recently been watching debates, reading what historians have to say, and considering historical arguments for Jesus’ resurrection. Christian apologists claim that historians have agreed on a list of various facts surrounding Jesus’ death, ministry, and influence that the best explanation for all of these facts is that God raised Jesus from the dead. The […]