As promised, here’s the question and answer session which followed my thesis reading. Various students and faculty members asked me a variety of questions.
Thesis Question & Answer
Feel free to chime in with any of your questions.
Next up should be a chronicling of my post-grad trip to NYC.
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If anyone is still reading this blog, I plan on beginning to write on here again. Expect posts related to my just-completed B.A. Honours thesis called A Restless Faith Seeking Reason to kick off catch-up-with-Matt’s-life mode here. Let’s begin with this audio file of my thesis presentation.
The full and very descriptive title of my thesis is […]
The Other Journal continues its current engagement with atheism with Ryan Dueck’s The New Atheism as Inadequate Theodicy. Dueck makes an interesting argument that the “new atheism” is ultimately portraying a simple and inadequate resolution to the problem of evil. While I find his argument fairly compelling, I think that Dueck would have done better […]
I never cease to be amazed at people’s inventiveness with what to “give up” for Lent. Merold Westphal, distinguished professor of philosophy at Fordham University, advocates trying (rather than giving up) something a little more unusual for Lent: atheism.
Before you run for the tar and feathers, what Westphal is really getting at is that the critiques […]
One consistent thread of postmodernism is to deny that human beings can possess absolute truth. This is not necessarily to say that Absolutes do not exist (although some indeed say this), but rather that our condition as human beings makes it impossible for us to grasp them. This makes a lot of people very uncomfortable […]
The following quote will probably be gibberish to many people, as it’s loaded with insider philosophical language. If your eyes glaze over, you’re normal. If you don’t, you’re some strange little creature called a philosopher that thinks of their body as a transportation device for their head. Have pity on these poor creatures.
If you’re still here, […]
