Ghost of the Australian Realists

Currently on my reading dock; I've always been fairly poor at logical deduction/symbolic translations, so I'm hoping to build up my skills reading this very fascinating and interesting book. What is everyone else reading?

"I hasten to add. In my experience, the members of that sad and theologically aberrant faction, ... suffer from an oddly touching obtuseness with regard to moral judgments" David Bently Hart on the Thomists. davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/notes-on-nat…

It's been more than two years, and @NaturalismPanth's contemporary case for Atheism still remains undefeated. People can talk about a "Christian Revival" all they want, but it means nothing until the best versions of Atheism are addressed and engaged with by apologists.

I still find this extremely sad. My Atheism (and reasoning skills more generally) is made better by having to engage with formidable and sophisticated theistic arguments and philosophers. The declining quality of apologists across the board ruins the discourse for everyone.

When someone asks me what the best argument for Theism is:

Sunday night reading. Can be found here for those interested: firstthings.com/wp-content/upl…

if you use grok or any ai chatbot to refute someone else’s intellectual argument, you are effectively subhuman

If you're deeply familiar with the scholarly literature on the historicity of resurrection, please reach out to me. I'm not looking for popular apologists, but people who have actually read and studied the academic material. I have a paper that needs to be reviewed. Thanks

For a decisive response to C.S. Lewis style "Arguments from Reason" be sure to check out the pair of responses from Keith Parsons below, which outline a explnatory Physicalist account of the mind as well: 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1K1BcO2… 2. drive.google.com/file/d/146UOq0…

Completely agree with Fr. Totlebn; a lot of popular apologetics is intellectual laziness and boring, the real intellectual adventure is in philosophy; which is party how I ended up falling in love with the analytic philosophy of religion: philarchive.org/archive/ALMCLI

If you can, please donate to Gab’s (@atheopagan) funeral fund. gofundme.com/f/help-amanda-…

🎯The life of the mind is about the pursuit of truth, for its own sake and come what may. When it's put at the service of something else, such as partisan politics or the goal of “branding” oneself as an “influencer,” it is quickly corrupted and yields only hackwork and sophistry

Along with folks like @worldviewdesign, @KennethLPearce, @IbrahimDagher20, @AStrasser116, @LdsPhilosophy, and others, who are other philosophically minded Theists accounts on here producing good content on Natural Theology and arguments for and against God’s existence?

My worldview in four texts:

This was a truly fantastic debate on the Bayesian fine-tuning argument featuring @FrictionPhilo and @PhilosopherMKD. Definitely would love to see more high-level + advanced discussions on cutting edge arguments like his: youtu.be/7O9NVPrE9ls?si…

David Hume provided the ingredients for all good sophisticated philosophical attacks against Theism, especially given the malleability of Theism as a theory. From "The Role of Anthropomorphism in Hume's Critique of Theism" by David M. Holley jstor.org/stable/pdf/400…

I do find it endearing that both Richard Swinburne and J.L. Mackie, despite being the respective titans of analytic theism and atheist philosophy, had such a deep and enduring friendship where they supported and engaged with each other during their careers at many points.

It should be noted that Prof. De Cruz was a Christian philosopher for most of her life, but recently left the faith after a thorough examinations. I find these types of deconversions much more epistemically significant, than a lot of the conversions that apologists play up.

Apologists: Ask a bunch of questions to try to dominate the conversation Me: Provides several peer-reviewed, reputable sources that comprehensively answer and engage all angles of the question. Apologists: Completely ignores answer, changes the subject, and throws insults