Got back from vacation. Spent a week in New England visiting my parents and cousins. My parents worked me like a dog while I was up there. They are putting gutters on their house and needed to have trenches dug for the drain pipes. My back was so tired it was almost in spasms and I am [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Trolleys and planes
November 26, 2006Saturday Book Quote
November 11, 2006A quote from the book Monty Python and Philosophy in the chapter “Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus” by Alan Richardson, where he coins the phrase reductio ad humorum.
Wittgenstein does not quite release himself from the hold of the idea that there must be some sense to “I know this is my hand.” After all, Moore asserted it in [...]
Saturday Book Quote
November 4, 2006Seems there has been a conversion of faith on the right side of the blogosphere. The impressively smart John Derbyshire has decided to leave the Christian faith. This prompted me to remember a sweet little book called Just Shy of Harmony, where a Quaker pastor has lost his faith. The following passage occurs after he told [...]
Natural Law
November 2, 2006There are some interesting arguments going on with Dr. Feser over at Right Reason. He is probably the best defender of natural law philosophy that I am aware of, although that is a pretty small set to choose from. Strangely enough, he is as much at odds with “new” natural law philosophy as he [...]
