Thursday, November 25, 2004

Blog Tableau: Maverick Philosopher

As part of the festivities for today, I would like to showcase some aspects of some of my favorite weblogs that deal with philosophy and theology. A sampling or impressionistic snapshot of some important elements of the philosophosphere and theologosphere. The first up: Maverick Philosopher.

"Maverick Philosopher" is a blogospheric extension of IndependentPhilosopher.org, run by William Vallicella, whose philosophical interests are unified by his onto-theological personalism (as he describes it, the view "that individual persons form an irreducible and ultimate ontological category, and that within this category self-subsistent existence is the prime person").

Various posts of note at "Maverick Philosopher", in no particular order:

* Enthymemes

* Creation: Ex Nihilo or Ex Deo?

* Creatio ex Deo and Pantheism

* A Common Misunderstanding of So-Called Cambridge Changes

* David Stove, Anti-Philosopher

Some interesting papers and essays at IndependentPhilosopher.org:

* The Moreland-Willard-Lotze Thesis on Being, which he suggests can serve as an introduction to his book, A Paradigm Theory of Existence.

* God and Comfort

* Five Uses of Argument

* The Hume-Edwards Objection to the Cosmological Argument and the Regularity Theory of Causation

* Does Existence Itself Exist?