Faith and Philosophy: I

A trail of crunchy bread-crumbs, to lead you into the forest of our philosophy.  Click on the link to enter.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/10/consilient-connections.html

By “horizontal consilience” we shall refer to beguiling isomorphisms or unexpected shared formal features across disciplines, with neither being privileged:  a harmony rather than an explicandum and an explicans.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-what-there-is_28.html

“What is Being?” is the ultimate conversation-stopper;  that question, like Being itself in so bald an encounter, is like a diffuse and vaguely repugnant blancmange, filling all space. 

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/09/honorable-atheist.html

These are deep words, of honorable men; and poles apart from the snarky sneers of a Hitchens.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/10/eliminative-materialism.html

A similar bit of titular legerdemain (sugar-coated in the title, rat poison on the inside) was perpetrated by Patricia Churchland, in Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain (1986).  What is really being proposed there is not Unity, but Anschluss, with the mind playing the hapless role of Austria.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/09/philosophy-porn.html

Derek Parfit, we learn, is “thought by many to be the most original moral philosopher in the English-speaking world”;  and though, to anyone of apostolic bent, “originality” is not really the prime ideal to be striven for in this area -- there is many a pop guru for that -- that was no doubt meant as a compliment. 

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/09/der-fall-rorty-explication-de-texte.html

Rorty seems to have solved the Packing Problem:  This is ten pounds of bullsh*t in a five-pound bag.