Professor of Philosophy
University of Texas
Joined July 2008
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New posts at The Analytic Thomist and The Post-Liberal Patriot:
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Ants are animals. Organic substances. Per se unities. natural beings.
They aren’t software running on an artificial collection of multiple natural substances.
It’s not about “humans r special”.
I am puzzled as to why my fellow theologically orthodox Christians are *adamant* that the probability of AI consciousness is 0% rather than 0.001%. What is the big deal if we admit that AI is potentially but almost certainly not conscious, rather than impossibly conscious? What do we lose? Ants are conscious, for goodness' sake. That doesn't diminish our dignity in any way.
If I identify as a man, am I a woman?
No, obviously not.
Why not?
Because being a man and being a woman are self-evidently different.
Exactly
Attacking the hard left on the issue of “political violence” doesn’t make much sense. Has everyone forgotten the American Revolution?
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This brilliant man was on the team that gave Richard Dawkins his PhD in 1966. But he now has devastating criticisms of Dawkins' principal assertions, much to Dawkins' prickly dismay.
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I just converted to Catholicism! Here’s my story:
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Nolan didn’t adapt Homer “for a modern audience.” He adapted the epic against a specific segment of the modern audience. He was worried that presenting Homer straight would appeal too much to the wrong audience. He gives us a liberalized, egalitarian, denatured, cosmopolitan Homer in order to repel many modern people
Homer’s epics don’t need to be adapted for the modern audience; the modern audience must do what more than 100 earlier generations have done: adapt itself to Homer’s epics.
America is not a nation of immigrants. It is a nation of immigrants and 1st, 2nd,3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th-generation descendants of immigrants.
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Barack Obama Fathered Today’s Marxist Democrat Party
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Remember, "judicial review," the supposed power of courts to decide if an act of the executive or legislature complies with the Constitution, is an extra-constitutional fiction created by the Supreme Court itself. Ignoring the Court is constitutional, rational, and necessary.
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Thomas footnote: T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica:
[F]oreigners “were not at once admitted to citizenship” because “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
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A good reading of the Venona Papers proves how inaccurate the term "Red Scare" was and is.
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The second issue of the new Journal of Natural Law is out soon. It includes, among other things, a debate between @melissamoschell and @robkoons on the New Natural Law Theory, and articles on Protestantism and natural law: journalofnaturallaw.org/#cur…
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The Texas SBOE is expected to finalize a new required reading list next week.
The new literature list will:
👉build literacy
👉develop an understanding of literature
👉build cross-curricular knowledge
👉provide a historical, cultural, and moral foundation for students