What follows is a (very) casual reflection on my view, as a Catholic, of the appropriate ecumenical apologetic Catholics should offer to evangelicals/protestants when asked what we believe about wh…| Tyler Journeaux
I was thinking yesterday about Thomas Aquinas’ rather strict view on the duty to never lie, even, as he says, when we lie for the sake of a joke. He admits, of course, that lying in the cause of a …| Tyler Journeaux
Against the somewhat populist mantra of atheists like Sean Carroll (that the term ‘God’ is not now, nor seemingly ever, clearly defined),[1] I have insisted that analytic theologians, at least, hav…| Tyler Journeaux
Suppose that you’re thinking of adopting radical probabilism,[1] or some more moderate form of Bayesianism, as your epistemology, but you’re hesitant because you think there are beliefs which are p…| Tyler Journeaux
G. E. Moore famously argued, contra the skeptic, that he had a hand. What he meant by that provocatively simple rebuttal was roughly this: that as sound as one might be inclined to think any argume…| Tyler Journeaux
I typically define theism in company with those who, under the enduring influence of St. Anselm, follow him in affirming that God is that than which nothing greater could be conceived. To update th…| Tyler Journeaux
An interesting thought occurred to me recently while I was reading through the early pages of Bas C. van Fraassen’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space. I would not be surprised if …| Tyler Journeaux
I have profound sympathy for the intuition that, for either the A-theory of time, or the B-theory of time, if it is true, then it is necessarily true. It obviously follows, therefore, from either o…| Tyler Journeaux
It was typical for the Medievals to speak of existence as a degreed concept (i.e., as the kind of thing which comes in greater or lesser degrees). Modern philosophers generally balk at this suggest…| Tyler Journeaux
There is a popular and catchy saying which I myself have been caught repeating in the past, but which, for all its intuitive appeal, is false; namely, that the absence of evidence isn’t evide…| Tyler Journeaux
