More philosophy blogs

Want to find a philosophy blog? Try the EpistemeLinks database here. It has almost links to nearly 100 philosophy-related blogs using filters. The filters include; title, author and topic.

A search for 'Philosophy of Religion' blogs yields:
Prosblogion

A search for 'Philosophy of Science' has:
Obscure and Confused Ideas
Philosophy of Biology
Studi Galileiani

A search for blogs by 'Philosophy Departments' gives:
Daily Phil
Desert Landscapes
Fake Barn Country (the link provided for this is old it's now here)
Hesperus/Phosphorus
Orange Philosophy
Saint Lawrence Philosophy Blog
Show-Me the Argument
The Web of Belief
This Is Not The Name Of This Blog (this is not there anymore)
UCSB Philosophy Blog
Undetached Rabbit Parts (this blog finished in Dec 2005)
and last but not least a blog from my old University:
University of East Anglia Philosophy
which has moved to here.

Tags: blogs,philosophy

Best blond(e) joke in the world?

This may well be the best blond(e) joke in the world: here.

I don't feel (too) bad about posting blond(e) jokes - as my 8-year old is blonde and tells them.


Tags: jokes, non-pc

Philosophical blogs

A list of blogs, compiled by philosopher David Chalmers, 'devoted to topics in and around analytic philosophy, or that are by analytic philosophers' are to be found here.

Tags: blogs, philosophers

Calvin Seerveld on Reformational Christianity

...by 'Calvinian faith-tradition' and 'Reformational Christianity' - which is my pedigree for thinking, for developing a philosophy, for reading Scripture and praying, for living daily life - I mean (1) a life that would be deeply committed to the scriptural injunction not to be conformed to patterns of this age, but to be re-formed by the renewal of our consciousness so that we will be able to discern what God wills for action on earth (cf. Romans 1:12); and (2) an approach in history which honours the genius of the Reformation spearheaded by Martin Luther and John Calvin in the sixteenth century, developed by Groen van Prinsterer and Abraham Kuyper in the nineteenth century, as a particular christian cultural tradition out of which one can richly serve the Lord; and (3) a concern that we be communally busy re-forming as an ongoing way rather than standing pat in the past tense (ecclesia reformata semper reformanda est).

Calvin Seerveld (Paternoster Press, 1999, pp. xvi-xvii)

Tags: Seerveld, Kuyper, neocalvinism

Three useful resource blogs

I have discovered three useful resource blogs: Christian Journals, Christian MP3s and Christian Scholars. These contain a plethora of links to - as one might suspect - journals, mp3s and Christian scholars. They are maintained by Angus Nicolson, who also blogs here. He also has a blog Christian Scholars Past - although at the moment that's a blank!

Tags: blogs, journals, mp3s

Plantinga audio files

Apollos.ws lists the following audio files by Alvin Plantinga available on-line:
Evolutionary Arguments against Naturalism (Real Media)
The God Problem
Is Christian Scholarship Possible?
Pluralism: Defense of Religious Exclusivism
Warrant and Proper Function chapter 1
Alvin Plantinga and Hilary Putnam Discuss God's Existence
Against Materialism
Theism, Atheism, and Rationality


Tag: Alvin Plantinga

Apollos.ws

Apollos.ws is an excellent website for 'Christian research and eduction'. At present they have Research databases for Philosophy of Religion and Biblical Studies. There are lists of recommended books, audio/ visual media, online articles and a course project.

We want to begin an initiative to give the public access to complete college courses online, free of charge, taught by some of the greatest contemporary Christian thinkers.

In the Twilight of Western Thought - study guide

I have updated my study guide to Dooyeweerd's In the Twilight of Western Thought on my In the Twilight of Western Thought blog. A guide to chapter 7, Dooyeweerd's third and final lecture on the relationship of theology and philosophy, is now on-line.


Technorati Tags: Dooyeweerd, neocalvinism

The Abraham Kuyper Society

Man-san 'Sander' Chan, who is studying at the Free University , has started a new blog: The Abraham Kuyper Society. He writes:

The reasons for founding an Abraham Kuyper Society are the following:
- Studying the works by Abraham Kuyper in groups of students and others who are interested, from different professional and scientific disciplines.
- Reintroducing a complete and coherent Christian worldview at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (founded by Abraham Kuyper in 1880).
- Studying the relation between Christian religion, politics, society and science.- Honouring God with all our minds.

Technorati Tags: Kuyper,neocalvinism

All of life redeemed site - one-year old

The All of life redeemed website is now one-year old. It has grown at a fantastic pace. At present there are the following articles available from the site - in no particular order:

Clouser, Roy Reason and Belief in God
Clouser, Roy Is There a Christian view of Everything from Soup to Nuts?
Clouser, Roy Is Theism Compatible with Evolution?
Clouser, Roy Two Watersheds of Biblical Interpretation
Clouser, Roy Is God Eternal?
Clouser, Roy A Critique of Historicism
Clouser, Roy On the General Relation of Religion, Metaphysics, and Science
Clouser, Roy A Sketch of Dooyeweerd's Philosophy of Science" in
Clouser, Roy The Uniqueness of Dooyeweerd's Program for Philosophy and Science: Whence the Difference?"
Clouser, RoyGenesis and Science on the Origin of the Human Race
Clouser, Roy Divine Accommodation: An Alternative Theory of Religious Language
Clouser, Roy Religious Language: A New Look at an Old Problem
Clouser, Roy A Critique of Descartes and Heisenberg
Clouser, Roy Aristotle's Theory of Incontinence
Wolters, Al On Vollenhoven's Problem-Historical Method
Strauss, D F M An Analysis of the Structure of Analysis (The Gegenstand-relation in discussion)
Strauss, D F M Reductionism in Mathematics: Philosophical Reflections
Strauss, D F M Does it make sense to distinguish between the natural sciences and the humanities?
Strauss, D F M Historical and systematic considerations relevant to an assessment of the position of the university.
Strauss, D F M Reason: Its Kaleidoscopic ideological interface.
Strauss, D F M The contemporary challenge to Christian scholarship.
Strauss, D F M How “rational” is “rationality”?
Strauss, D F M The Achilles' heel of positivism.
Strauss, D F M Is a Christian Mathematics possible?
Strauss, D F M The “Copernican turn” of biology in the 20th Century
Strauss, D F M Science and Scholarship in Historical Perspective
Strauss, D F M Intellectual influences upon the reformational philosophy of Dooyeweerd
Strauss, D F M Philosophical Perspectives on Leisure, Play and Sport.
Strauss, D F M The best known but least understood part of Dooyeweerd's philosophy.
Wearne, Bruce John Dawkins Versus John Calvin
Wearne, Bruce Christian Students In The University Crisis
Wearne, Bruce Evangelicals And Their Political Problems With Christian Education
Wearne, Bruce A Free University And Professional Formation
Wearne, Bruce Voluntary Student Unionism
Wearne, Bruce A Christian Study Centre and the Re-Formation Of Academic Qualifications
Wearne, Bruce Interview with Adolpho de la Sienra Garcia
Russell, Richard In Defence of Dooyeweerd and of Christian Philosophy
Russell, Richard Dooyewerdian diagrams
Tol, Anthony In memoriam: Vollenhoven
Roques, Mark Pub philosophy: Engaging the Great Philosophers with Beer, Cigars and Crisps
Roques, Mark The Rennaisance
Roques, Mark Maths and the Disenchanted Cosmos
Roques, Mark The Enlightenment
Roques, Mark Romanticism
Russell, Richard Dooyeweerdian Diagrams
Richard Russell In defence of Dooyeweerd
Gousmett, Chris Creation order and miracle according to Augustine
Gousmett, Chris A latter day Augustinian: Diemer on creation and miracle
Gousmett, Chris Miracles: signs of the coming kingdom
Gousmett, Chris Descartes and the theory of contingency
Gousmett, Chris The Christ of the Spirit in Athanasius and Kuyper
Gousmett, Chris Dooyeweerd on Faith and apostasy
Sewell, Keith The Idea of a Free Christian University
Sewell, Keith A High Challenge for Tough Times
Sewell, Keith That Was Then, This is Now
Sewell, Keith (ed) Hendrik Van Riessen The University and its Basis
Sewell, Keith (ed) Jan D. Dengerink The Necessity of Christian Universities
Sewell, Keith The Eclipse of History and the Crisis in the Humanities
Sewell, Keith The Bible, Science and Scholarship
Fackerell, Edward The Relationship Between Mathematics and the Christian Faith'
Fackerell, Edward A Christian perspective on teaching mathematics'.
Bishop, Steve Beliefs shapes mathematics
Bishop, Steve Mathematics and the myth of neutrality
Wolterstorff, Nick Dooyewerd: an appreciation

My thanks to all who have agreed to post their papers on-line.


Technorati Tags: neocalvinism

South African philosopher Danie Strauss has a new book published: Reintegrating Social Theory. According to the blurb:

When dealing with the key concepts of sociology the coherence between this discipline and the other academic disciplines automatically emerges. In order to transcend the shortcomings of one-sided sociological theories it is necessary to hold on to the worthwhile contributions made by each of them. This goal requires an analysis of basic concepts such as social order, social stratification, social constancy and dynamics, social differentiation and integration, social sensitivity, solidarity and consciousness, social consensus and conflict, social power and control, and social symbolism, meaning and interpretation. This work therefore aims at a reintegration of social theory by including a discussion of sociological trends of thought that have been prominent during the past two centuries. It turned out that the opposition between atomistic (individualistic) and holistic (universalistic) theories practically cuts through all sociological schools of thought

Technorati Tags: books,neocalvinism

Against the grain

Kenn Hermann has now started a blog: Against the grain. He writes:

This is a miscellany ….. Expect entries ranging from the just war and Iraq to Herman Dooyeweerd’s philosophy to Intelligent Design to favorite old books to the philosophy of technology to the implications of following Christ in a consumer culture and academia to . . . . You get the idea, very little is out of bounds. It will also be occasional, as workload and the Muse dictate.

Sounds like a blog worth reading!
Technorati Tags: blogs, Christianity, neocalvinism

All of life redeemed update

I have been updating the mathematics section of the All of Life Redeemed website - I have added some links to books and papers and have added two important papers by the Australian Edward Fackerell. The papers are: The relationship between mathematics and the Christian faith and A Christian perspective on teaching mathematics'. I have also added pdfs of two papers of mine: Mathematics and the myth of neutrality and Beliefs shapes mathematics. All four papers argue from the perspective that Jesus is lord of all and that the all includes mathematics.

Technorati Tags: mathematics, Christianity, neocalvinism

G K Chesterton quote

I have never been able to find a reference for the often-quoted phrase attributed to G. K. Chesterton:

When a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes in anything.

Now it turns out that Chesterton didn't even say or write it! According to The American Chesterton Society, it is probably an amalgam of these two quotes, found in Chesterton's Father Brown stories:

It's the first effect of not believing in God that
you lose your common sense. ["The Oracle of the Dog" (1923)]

You hard-shelled materialists were all balanced
on the very edge of belief - of belief in almost anything.
["The Miracle of Moon Crescent" (1924)]

Technorati Tags: G K Chesterton

God and proofs

Hence every effort to 'prove' God is a denial of Him. In all such rationalistic proofs, God is brought before the logic of man's mind and required to 'justify' and 'prove' His existence. The god who is then derived or or 'proven' is the god of man's imagination, not the living God of Scripture. To prove means to establish by evidence, to show to be true, to test, and to verify. We cannot prove God. He is the Source of all proof. We are rather proven, tested, or verifed by Him. He alone can justify.

R J Rushdoony Systematic Theology Volume I (Ross House Books: Vallecito, 1994) p.661. [HT Forrest Schultz]

Technorati Tags: theistic proofsRushdoony

Bands to look out for in 2006

Blueneck from Somerset
Fuzzylights from Cambridge
Ef from Gothenburg
Evaporatia report from Switzerland
Change of Plans from Istanbul

Technorati Tags: post-rock,

The 46 best-ever freeware utilities

Thanks to deli.icio.us I have come across a list of 'The best-ever freeware utilities'. It's a great list and includes a lot of my faves.

Technorati Tags: freeware

A new blog and a defunct blog

Derek Melleby of Aslan is on the Move has launched a new blog. It is the blog of the Center for Parent/ Youth Understanding (CPYU) College Transition Initiative.

Sadly it looks like Russ Reeves Tolle, Blogge is now defunct - shame.

Technorati Tags: blogs, neocalvinism,

del.icio.us

I have been using del.icio.us - a social bookmarker - for a few months now, but have always found it easier to use ctrl+D in Mozilla Firefox; but no longer! Thanks to jonny baker I have now found an add-in to Mozilla (here) that means at a click of a mouse the website can be added to del.ico.us and the tags easily inserted.


Another of the hundreds of reasons why Mozilla Firefox is far superior to ie.

You can check out my del.icio.us links here. The great thing about del.icio.us is that others' tags can be accessed; so for example check all the Dooyeweerd tags here and all the neocalvinism tags here.

Sigur Ros - live in Iceland - and other music

A superb 132 min webcast of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros is available from here playing live in Reykjavik in November 2005. It is truly awe inspiring.

A search engine I have recently come across is the wonderfully titled singing fish. It will find many audio and visual files. It gives 120 responses for Damien Rice, 355 for Keith Jarrett, 6 for Esmerine, 137 for Kate Rusby, 302 for Bruce Cockburn but sadly none for Stafraenn Hakon or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. For S. Hakon you'll have to go here - and click on sounds. For GY!BE try here for an amazing mp3 of a live concert.

Update: there are some excellent mp3s of Stafraenn Hakon playing live here.

Technorati Tags: Sigur Ross, Stafraenn Hakon,