Edward Feser

In anarticle at Nature, EddyKeming Chen, Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen, and David Danks ask “Does AI alreadyhave human-level intelligence?” and claim that “the evidence is clear” that theanswer is Yes.  (Though the article ispartially pay-walled, a read...

Philosopherof science Bas vanFraassen is well known for defending the “constructive empiricist” positionthat the success of a scientific theory does not compel us to believe in theexistence of the theoretical entities it posits.  In his view, a scientific...

Almost fortyyears ago, the liberal pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty published an essaytitled “The Priorityof Democracy to Philosophy.” I recall hating it immediately, from the title alone.  The sentiment was appalling coming fromanyone, but especially...

Some Catholicvoices online have been suggesting that the example of Spanish colonialism justifiesthe Trump administration’s expansionist foreign policy – including the threatto take Greenland by force.  Catholic podcaster Matt Walsh, with whom Irecently...