Epistemic Theories
As large section of the philosophical branch of epistemology is the question of epistemic justification. Justification attempts to determine what grounds there are (or what justification there is) for one […]
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Category Archives: Philosophy
Three Big Difficulties For Philosophical Determinism
What is Philosophical Determinism? According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, determinism is the “doctrine that human action is not free but determined by motives regarded as external forces acting on the […]
Why Is Philosophy Important? For a Few Good Reasons!
For many people philosophy is something both ancient and other. It is “ancient” because the ideas presented in the works of a number ancient thinkers like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle […]
What’s Critical Thinking & Why is it Important?
Everyone thinks. It is simply within our human nature to do so. From a young age many of us are taught to be critical thinkers; a fact that is stipulated […]
Has Science Killed Philosophy?
Some people will square science against philosophy arguing that the former is still relevant whereas the latter isn’t. While science and scientists continue to make groundbreaking discoveries, philosophers busy themselves […]
William Lane Craig, Alvin Plantinga & J.P. Moreland Named Among the 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers
If you have some awareness of the interlinked debates on theology, philosophy, science, and apologetics you should have heard the names William Lane Craig, Alvin Plantinga, and J.P Moreland. But […]
Western Philosophy: Do Philosophers Believe in God?
A 2013 survey “What Do Philosophers Believe?” I have cited frequently when dialoguing and writing on contemporary philosophy and the views held by professional philosophers discovered that a large proportion […]
Epistemology: The Value of Evidence & Propositional Evidence [Part 1]
Importance of Evidence Evidence is important to those of us who wish to come to reasonable conclusions. It is also an important question of epistemology, and thus a significant topic […]
The Specious Present & God’s Relation to Time: Atemporal & Temporal Views.
This brief essay intends to touch on two important questions related to the philosophy of time as well as the philosophy of religion. We will first look at what it […]
Scientific Realism & Why I am a Scientific Realist.
Over the last few decades there has been much debate within the philosophy of science over which interpretation is the most adequate for interpreting scientific theories that refer to the […]
