Wednesday 15 December 2010

Bite into the real deal of the atheism-faith debate

If you have any sort of interest in issues such as atheism, secularism, humanism, religion, intelligent design, creationism, and so on. Take a rest from the amateurs of the blog world, click the free online link below and bite into the real deal. For non-philosophers: Synthese is a highly rated and renowned peer-reviewed academic philosophy journal in the analytic tradition.

Repost from Brian Leiter's Leiter Reports:

"Special Issue of Synthese on "Evolution and Its Rivals"

Available free on-line through the end of the month!  Longtime followers of my "Texas Taliban Alerts" will, no doubt, be particularly interested in the extended discussion of the ID creationism apologetics of Francis Beckwith.  (Earlier relevant items here and here.)   Alas, one of the essays, by Robert Pennock (Michigan State), appears to be a purported defense of the demarcation problem against Laudan's famous critique."
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8 comments:

  1. TM15 December 2010 at 23:11

    Brilliant. Thanks. I think I should read Leiter more often - I've encountered it in the past. Ha and yes I am one of those amateur bloggers ;)

    - Tauriq

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  2. bjorn16 December 2010 at 20:06

    Kul! Tack! Nu jädrar ska en amatör ta en rejäl tugga ;-)

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  3. bjorn16 December 2010 at 21:09

    Jag deltog idag i en paneldebatt under rubriken "Försvinner magin med naturvetenskapen?", riktad till gymnasie-elever.

    Efter att hittills ha läst 15 sidor av specialnumret känner jag mig nöjd med min insats under debatten. Just metodologisk naturalism anförde jag som utmärkande för (god) vetenskap, men också för varje sund och konstruktiv livshållning.

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  4. bjorn18 December 2010 at 12:13

    Would you care to expound on your "alas" above, Christian?

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  5. Christian Munthe18 December 2010 at 18:50

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  6. Christian Munthe18 December 2010 at 18:51

    Oh that's not me (note the quotation marks!) The whole segment is a repost from Brian Leiter's blog!

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  7. bjorn19 December 2010 at 17:11

    I still don't see the problem with demarcation. Isn't MN enough?

    (Intp the seventh article now. Maybe things will be clearer in a while.)

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  8. bjorn19 December 2010 at 18:48

    OK, I see now that demarcation is treacherous ground. But still, if ID proponents either i) denounce theism or ii) are given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the possibility of eventually capturing what is currently "metaphysical" metaphors in naturalistic terms; the mere (and ultimate) ambition of assigning telos out of grasp of human cognition seems to me a violation of MN.

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