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Archive for March, 2006

More on Tolerance and Religious Pluralism

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Yesterday I received my first Journal of the American Academy of Religion, nicely shrink-wrapped and chock full of articles on a theme: “On the Future of the Study of  Religion in the Academy.”
We’re not talking about the Air Force Academy, though that would probably make for an interesting sociological study.  Instead, a selection of scholars [...]

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Pre-Philosophical Intuitions

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

For my metaphysics class, I’ve been reading about various disputes in current analytic philosophy: three-dimensionalism versus four-dimensionalism; presentism versus eternalism; temporal parts versus stages, etc.  Nearly every single article I’ve read has discussed ‘pre-philosophical intuitions’ (henceforth PPI) in some depth, or PPI have played a pivotal role in argumentation.
As I work out my own metaphysics–which [...]

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