Unless you’ve been backpacking in the Himalayas for the last few days, you have been confronted with the latest internet meme: Laurel or Yanny? First, I’ll let my avatar handle this: All kidding aside, the lesson is that there are lower frequencies in the audio clip that sound like “Laurel” and higher frequencies that sound […]
William Alston
A Review of William Alston, “A Sensible Metaphysical Realism”
William Alston, A Sensible Metaphysical Realism. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2001. 65 pages. $15.00. Unfortunately, when it comes to philosophy, common sense almost always takes a backseat to self-confessed Copernican revolutions. As such, William Alston’s 2001 Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University, titled A Sensible Metaphysical Realism, might seem to have the deck stacked against it. But […]
William Alston on naturalism
In the last few days we’ve been talking a fair bit about naturalism. So I figure this is a good time to point interested readers to a very good essay by Christian philosopher William Alston in which he critiques naturalism by arguing it appears to be more an attitude expressed by those who really like […]
