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Science and the Inescapability of Metaphysics
The last three centuries have witnessed the great rise of the empirical sciences, such as physics and biology. Indeed,...
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The Place of Biology in Cosmology
“Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her...
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Dante’s Vision of a United Europe
There is a rather naive notion that the vision of a politically United Europe was born ex nihilo in...
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Universalism and Particularism: Judaism in an Age of Science
A review of Norbert M. Samuelson, Jewish Faith and Modern Science: On the Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy...
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The Philosophy of Edith Stein
A review of Antonio Calcagno, The Philosophy of Edith Stein, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007 In the introduction to...
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Cosmic Connection
There are a great many things in the world around us: mountains and rivers, plants and trees, birds and...
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Habermas on the Vision of a Post-Secular Europe – Part II
The modern fallacy consists in placing secular as an adjective before humanist as if to imply that to be...
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It’s the end of the university as we know it (and I feel fine)…
My inbox filled up faster than a grad student at a reception for the guest speaker with emails from...
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Juergen Habermas on the Vision of a Post-Secular Europe – Part I
“A European community grounded only in political and economic cooperation of the member states would lack an intrinsic common...
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Fix-It Self-Efficacy: A Yes-We-Can Attitude Learned the Hard Way
Once I wrote a book six times, about three hundred pages per draft. Every time I started over, I...
