The Analytic Scholastic

I wrote most of this post several months ago when my friend Calum Miller came to southern California for a semester abroad. Unfortunately, I...

The traditional story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most perplexing parts of the Bible, at least for philosophers. There seems to be so...

One common fallacy is the fallacy of composition, where one argues from the fact that each part of a thing has a certain feature to the conc...

So, I want to get a bit more clear on what the grounding objection to Molinism is saying. As far as I can tell at this moment, the grounding...

In this post I will consider two arguments which have at times been brought up in connection with the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA), whi...

Just a note: I will probably be laying kind of low for a while, since I am now moved in at my new school and taking summer courses. I will b...

William Lane Craig, as with most contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, objects to the classical Thomistic idea that God cannot be...

In the last post I discussed whether a Thomist could preserve both the efficacy of God's will and the libertarian freedom of our action...

In my last post I explained that God does not cause1 our free actions, but only cause2's them; hence, there can be no conflict between ...

This post comes out of a very large and high-quality discussion on predestination on Facebook. If you don't have Facebook you should rea...

My logic teacher and I were reflecting on the ontological argument and we came up with this. Forgive the cheap operators. A perfection is a ...

[Originally posted at the Rational Gang . Please direct any comments there.] A lot of atheists say that if God were to perform a miracle i...

Introduction: What does God's omnibenevolence consist in? I think that we need to do a little more work on fully explaining what we mea...

Consider some valid theistic arguments and what an atheist must do to deny their soundness. Argument A - A Necessary Concrete Entity: (1)...

Originally posted here . Introduction: Throughout the centuries the Christian tradition has had a love-hate relationship with Aristotle....