Thu - March 23, 2006

The Nuclear Deterrent


The following is the text of a talk I gave at a conference about the British plans to build a replacement for their Trident submarines, submarines which carry nuclear armaments.

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Tue - January 31, 2006

John Haldane's "Faithful Reason"


This is my review of Haldane's excellent book. It appeared in New Blackfriars, and is republished here with the kind permission of the book reviews editor.

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Sat - June 11, 2005

Thanks


I want to publicly say thanks to Lamont Dyck, without whom this blog would not have happened.

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Relativism


There's a lot of it about, but does it really make any sense?

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Tue - March 15, 2005

Radical Translation Redux


It is instructive to see Quine's argument of radical translation in the context of the translation of real languages.

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Tue - January 18, 2005

Reviving this blog


What's been happening since I last blogged (some time in November 2003).

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Mon - January 17, 2005

Quine's Radical Translation


Some queries about Quine's arguments about radical translation.

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Is theology just God-talk?


Is any intellectual activity arising from faith theology? Or should we have a word for the specifically scientific approach to faith? Here are some musings about faith, reason, science and the way we use words to talk about these three.

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