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Did the God of theism—omnipotent, wholly wise, and perfectly good—use Darwinian evolution to create species? Many contemporary thinkers see this “evolutionary theism” as wildly implausible. Why? One reason is that Darwinian evolution has caused unimaginable amounts of brutal suffering by animals in an unfathomably long planetary past, and it does so in nature now. Did […]
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David McPherson, Creighton University Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, but I would add that it often also begins with dissatisfaction. This is true of my new book Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020). I have been drawn to the Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics and find much that is congenial […]
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As an awe-struck adolescent in attendance at the 1962 Pittsburgh Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, I saw Bishop Richard R. Wright, Jr., a scholarly protégé of W. E. B. Du Bois. Little did I realize that the denomination in which Wright served for several decades would become my focus for serious scholarly […]
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Recently, India passed a bill to amend its citizenship law. With this bill, religion becomes a major criterion for the approval of new citizens. While the bill makes it easier to get citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians, it excludes Muslims, India’s largest minority, with a population of around 200 million. This […]
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Whatever else religious experience is, it is experience, and it should be assessed accordingly. It is not a belief, a theory, or a creed. Instead, it is a kind of awareness that attracts one’s attention, even if one has not (yet) focused on it. The awareness, as experience, is qualitative in presenting to a person […]
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Let’s start with a simple question. What is your book about? It’s on the question: What is politics? What defines the political sphere? How is politics different from economics, law, morality, religion, or warfare? Why do these questions matter? They underlie questions of democracy: What view of politics is conducive to a strong and just […]
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Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis from CUP Academic on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT: Geraint Lewis: I’m Geraint Lewis and I’m a professor of astrophysics at the University of Sydney and I am the author with Luke Barnes of A Cosmic Revolutionaries Handbook (or: How to Overthrow the Big Bang) What reader did you have […]
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Sister Mary Aloysia Joseph Wright of the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, Liège; oil painting
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