Category Archives: Epistemology

God the Philosopher

Posted on September 6, 2008 by

Think about this: Under ‘things in the broadest possible sense’ include such radically different items as not only ‘cabbages and kings’, but numbers and duties. possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be, … Continue reading →

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Not So Neutral

Posted on January 26, 2008 by

This post has been sitting incomplete in my writing files for more than a year. I just needed a reason to complete it. Thanks to the discussion on the previous post, “Common Misconceptions of the Christmas Story” I was given new … Continue reading →

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An Evening with Plantinga

Posted on October 24, 2007 by

This evening, I have the distinct privilege to have dinner with one who easily the greatest Christian philosopher of the twentieth-century, Alvin Plantinga. Aside from his intellectual acumen, he is known as an engaging conversationalist on a variety of subjects. … Continue reading →

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The Noetic Effects of Salvation in Presuppositional Apologetics

Posted on August 8, 2007 by

It has become standard fare in any method of Christian apologetics to give a place to what theologians call the noetic effects of sin. How does sin affect our minds? In what way is one’s ability to reason corrupted by … Continue reading →

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Plantinga for the Rest of Us (Part 1)

Posted on December 15, 2006 by

There’s probably no other Christian philosopher of the twentieth (and thus far the twenty-first) century who is both more popular and more influential than Alvin Plantinga. I’ve spent most of my academic years around theologians and the vast majority of … Continue reading →

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Van Til, Knowledge and Certainty

Posted on August 24, 2006 by

I’d like to discuss beyond my previous post, and show the significance of certainty and skepticism as it relates to Christian and non-Christian thought. The kind of certainty I spoke of in the previous post might best be called subjective … Continue reading →

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The Certainty of Skepticism

Posted on August 7, 2006 by

Philosophical skepticism is a hard man to keep down. There is nothing to prevent someone from being skeptical about any feature of this world. It is the ultimate conspiracy theory, equipped with a built in self-protection system. Attempting to combat … Continue reading →

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Knowledge, Fake Barns, and Sherlock Holmes

Posted on July 3, 2006 by

It’s one of life’s little ironies that every person on earth possesses knowledge and makes claims to knowledge while the criteria of knowledge remain so difficult to identify. Analytic philosophy has offered many claims on what are the conditions for knowledge: the familiar … Continue reading →

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