Most people engage in what philosophers call “inductive” reasoning. People make accurate predictions about the future on the basis of conjunctions they have observed in the past. For example, I assume the sun will rise tomorrow because in the past I have observed it rise. Scientists, in particular, rely on extrapolations of this sort in […]
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Induction: Assuming the Uniformity of Nature
March 4th, 2011 Comments Off on Induction: Assuming the Uniformity of Nature
Tags: Conjunction · Induction · Philosophy of Science · Regularity View · Uniformity of Nature
Hear John Lennox in New Zealand UPDATED
February 15th, 2011 6 Comments
Professor John Lennox of the University of Oxford will arrive in New Zealand in a fortnight for a brief public speaking tour in the centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. His New Zealand speaking itinerary of public events is below; all public events are free. Auckland Sunday 27 February 9:30 – 11:00am Preaching at Howick Baptist […]
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False Alarm: Falsificationism and its Misapplication
January 4th, 2011 21 Comments
A fair number of people are fond of the claim that if one is to be able to take a claim seriously, it really ought to be falsifiable. One easy response is that it’s difficult to see how this particular claim, about how we are to go about accumulating knowledge and believing stuff, is itself […]
Tags: Falsificationism · Friedel Weinert · Karl Popper · Philosophy of Science · Science and Religion · Scientism
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
