Patrick Lee Miller is an assistant professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and the author of Becoming God: Pure Reason…
philosophy
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral
At the core of contemporary secularism is the denial of the existence of deities and the supernatural. There is only…
The Soul Hypothesis
At The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Stark reviews The Soul Hypothesis, a collection of essays edited by Mark Baker and…
Can life be better than bearable?
At The Stone, philosopher Sean D. Kelly muses on Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God and considers contemporary culture…
Crosswise logic
My previous post sought to humble the principle of non-contradiction, and thus the logic of consistency it defines, finding it inadequate for…
Truth in conflict
My previous post argued that anyone who wishes both to think well and to feel well about the world should…
Thinking otherwise
By insisting that this is all there is, the secularist position forecloses the emergence of anything other than this. Since…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
Love and reason
Anyone who has entered the labyrinth of A Secular Age should welcome this volume as a guide. Its contributors unwind…
A Catholic critique of capital?
A lengthy profile by John Cornwell, which appears in the November issue of Prospect, examines the biography and the philosophical…