Mah: 97 books

Daniel Novotny aims to demonstrate that the Baroque scholastics should no longer be ignored. This happens to also be the thesis of another philosopher, John Deely in a separate book, New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (1994). In these comments on Novotny’s text, the category-based...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

Clinical and social scientists Miron Zuckerman, Chen Li and Ed Diener, from the Universities of Rochester (MZ and CL),Virginia and Utah (ED), present an exchange model of religion. They build upon a trail blazed in 2016 by Norenzayan and collaborators on the cultural evolution of religion. These comments...

Saint Augustine formulated Original Sin in order to justify infant baptism. The theological concept turned out to be very useful. It became Christian doctrine. Augustine postulated that Original Sin was transmitted through procreation. The sexual union was the path of descent. Today, this implies...

Giovanni Maddelena, at the University of Molise, publishes an article in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy in June, 2017. The title is "Jung and Peirce: Towards a Psychosynthesis". Charles Peirce, the founder of postmodern semiotics, writes around the same time as...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

In Philosophy of Nature (1935), Jacques Maritain spends six full pages on Emile Meyerson, a contemporary French reactionary to Positivist judgment. Like Maritain Meyerson is concerned with the epistemology of phenomena. How does the scientific intellect work? Miguel Espinoza, at the University of...

For 40 years, George Murphy has been examining the sciences from the viewpoint of the Trinity. In this article, he first considers how Christians came to appreciate the Trinitarian nature of God, especially when it comes to creation. God cooperates with creatures, respecting the capacities and limitations...

Professors Egil Asprem and Ann Taves publish “Explanation and the Study of Religion" in Method Today: Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Brad Stottard (2018; Equinox Press, London; pages 133-157). They follow and update Wayne Proudfoot’s vision, presumably to take...

Clive Gamble is a Paleolithic archaeologist. John Gowlett is a social anthropologist with primary interest in late European societies. Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary psychologist. Together, they submitted a proposal for research project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the British Academy....

Over twenty years ago, Steven Mithen, a British archaeologist, published one of the most eloquently written books on human evolution. The Prehistory of The Mind (1996) frames the past six million years with two evocative analogies. The first is a play in four acts. The second is the evolution of church...

An Archaeology of the Fall addresses this question: Why is our current Lebenswelt not the same as “the Lebenswelt that we evolved in”. A hypothesis is presented in dramatic form. So are its fantastic implications.A discontinuity occurred in recent prehistory. The first singularity altered the...

Derek Bickerton is an emeritus professor in Linguistics at the University of Hawaii. His other works include Language and Species (1990), along with many publications on the character of pigdin and creole. This work synthesizes ideas from a long and productive career. The evolution of language has...

This work comments an essay titled, “Analogy in Aquinas: The Alston-Wolterstorff Debate Revisited”. The author is Joshua Lee Harris. The article appears in the January 2017 edition of the Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers (34:33-56). Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine...