Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 8 Jan 201927 Feb 2019 The title page of the 1779 second edition. Readers may recall that I once posted a PDF of Hume’s Dialogues with the dialogues coloured by speaker. Recently I was asked by Alexander Afriat, of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, for the same in EPub format. So I have converted it (without too many errors, I hope) to EPub and put it up on Apple Books for free. Let me know if you catch any errors in it. Also, since I have the technology [“we can rebuild it”], let me know if there are any similar documents you might like formatted that way. The original PDF is here: [embeddoc url=”https://evolvingthoughts.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Hume-Dialogues.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”] Philosophy Religion
Creationism and Intelligent Design Do you believe in evolution? 5 May 2009 Asks MSNBC’s Chris Matthews of the GOP’s Mike Pence. The latter dances around it, trying to avoid asserting what science knows to be true, but this raises an interesting problem: does one have to “believe” in evolution? I mean it’s a physical process (the “fact” side) which has a number… Read More
Australian stuff Australian PM Gillard not religious 29 Jun 2010 She says does not go through religious rituals for the sake of appearance. “I am not going to pretend a faith I don’t feel,” she said. “I am what I am and people will judge that. “For people of faith, I think the greatest compliment I could pay to them… Read More
Epistemology Was Jesus a philosopher? 9 May 2010 A local philosophy mailing list has announced a talk being given by a philosophically inclined plumber on Jesus’ philosophy. This rather begs the question* that he was indeed a philosopher. Jesus certainly held ethical principles and taught doctrines, but that is insufficient to make someone a philosopher. Many people have… Read More