robkoons

Professor of Philosophy

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@mark_bauerlein @jennfrey We’re in the process of creating a true core at UT-Austin.

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@SohrabAhmari How can moral principles become “outdated”?

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@ProtPhilosopher This ignores the two major most salient arguments against Sola Scriptural: (1) there is no Scriptural support for SS, (2) SS is empty without a canon, but the canon is not defined in Scripture.

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@mark_bauerlein @alexpriou It’s very hard to be a right-winger in academia without eventually going “native”. Hard, but not impossible

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@2Philosophical_ Kinda late for April Fool’s

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A philosopher offers a friendly review of Douthat’s book — which, unlike Current Affairs, people should definitely read: https://t.co/6ymfwZR2bb

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@michaeljknowles Luther accepted the perpetual virginity of Mary.

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1/2 Two new open access articles on hylomorphism and quantum physics from physicist and philosopher William M. R. Simpson. The first is "Don’t Squint: Quantum Hylomorphism Can Solve Albert’s Macro-Object Problem," in Topoi: https://t.co/1vNJNItamR

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@2Philosophical_ Parfit, yes. Not so sure about Rawls.

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@ELuttwak It means to reduce to one-tenth, I.e., to kill 90%

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@ProtPhilosopher It’s only as a prohibition that it’s self-undermining

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@ProtPhilosopher You’re confusing the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture (which Catholics also accept) with SS. SS does not follow logically from the fact of Scriptural authority. It is a universal negative claim that needs some rationale.

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@JLSteffaniak @ProtPhilosopher Protestants use SS to tell us that we not treat the Magisterium as authoritative precisely because it is not Scripture

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@ProtPhilosopher Every norm must have its source in some authority. How is the SS norm authorized to require me to treat Tradition and the Magisterium as non-authoritative?

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@ProtPhilosopher So, SS lacks “constitutive normative authority”? It must have “non-constitutive authority”, whatever that is.

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@romanhelmetguy @JeremyTate41 I’d say just math and languages (starting with classical languages). They can learn history on their own.

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@analyticatheism @RealAtheology So kind of you!

[Ghost of the Australian Realists @analyticatheism]

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest natural theologians since Swinburne, Dr. Rob Koons (@robkoons). One of the few remaining theists whose works keep me up at night as an Atheist and Naturalist.

A selection of some my favorite works below:

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@FeserEdward Very sad, and inexcusable.