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What Do We Mean When We Say Something Is “True”?
The average person might be surprised to learn there are several ways to understand what truth means. Philosophers as a group have contemplated the idea for quite some time. It appears to me that the general public—a majority of it, at least—thinks that truth is simply that which corresponds to the facts. This is roughly…
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Bridging the Metaphysical Divide: How Atheist and Christian Philosophers Transcended Culture War
In an era dominated by knee-jerk polarization and online echo chambers, public discourse often feels like a zero-sum war of attrition. Nowhere does this seem more pronounced than in debates over life’s ultimate questions: Does God exist? Are human beings biological machines, or created spirits? Is the cosmos governed by blind physical laws, or directed…
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Survival of the Cynical: Marilynne Robinson on Darwinism as Ideology
When we discuss evolution in modern discourse, we usually assume we are standing on the firm ground of objective biology. We imagine a neutral scientific process: organisms inherit physical traits, face selective environmental pressures, and those possessing advantageous mutations survive to pass their genetic material to subsequent generations. This empirical model of biological adaptation over…