Over at Commonweal contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the renewal of Christian, and more specifically evangelical, philosophy in the United States…
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Conference: Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present
The Philosophy Department at Villanova's will be holding its 18th Annual Philosophy Conference this Spring (April 12-13).
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
This short piece attempts to come at the current debate on law and religious freedom from two unusual angles. I…
The philosophy of Templeton
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the Templeton effect, and the focus on…
Conference: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
From Thursday, June 14th, to Sunday, June 17th, the Philosophy Department at Ryerson University will host Varieties of Continental Thought…
Contingency, divinity, and revelation
In The New Inquiry, Adam Kotsko reviews Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren, a study of Mallarmé's last poem, Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira…
West’s witness
For New York Magazine, Lisa Miller profiles Cornel West, surveying the course of his academic career, personal life, and variety…
Whose Yoga?
NPR's Margot Adler reports on the current popularity of yoga in the United States, and its disassociation with Hinduism. She…
The problem with the history of toleration
The problem with the history of toleration is not that no one is studying it. There is now a rapidly…
Love’s ladder’s God
It was their final conversation. She would soon die, although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine…