Terminological exaptitude 19 May 201119 May 2011 Lately, advocates of experimental philosophy have been calling it X-Phi. What with connotations of Mulder and Scully, that’s rather cool. Then, I saw a site on mathematical philosophy call itself M-Phi. So it follows that what I do, the philosophy of science, has to be called Sci-Phi… What do we call philosophical theology? Theo-Phi? Suggestions? Later: Ah! My intertubes are back! I will do a substantive post sometime soon, just after I finish all that marking… Humor Philosophy Science
Accommodationism Science outreach: A conversation 2 Feb 201420 Feb 2014 From the Freethinkers Blog Con: With PZ Myzer and Aron Ra. Read More
Book Yet another “post-Darwinism” 2 Aug 201122 Jun 2018 Over the years there have been many books that purport to “radically revise” or “supplant” Darwinian evolutionary biology; they come with predictable regularity. Usually they are of three kinds: something is wrong with natural selection, something is wrong with inheritance, or something is wrong with phylogeny. This book, by geneticist… Read More
Epistemology Atheism, agnosticism and theism 3: Knowledge claims about gods 20 Jul 201122 Jun 2018 Previous posts in this series: One and Two . In an influential book, W. V. O. Quine, one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century, wrote with his student: It is important to distinguish between disbelief and nonbelief – between believing a sentence false and merely not believing it true…. Read More
Hah! I hit submit, the site refreshed and there was the same suggestion of Dei Phi. Great minds think alike!
I’m more concerned with the philosophy of evolution: it must be e-phil, but then that’s what the creationists have been saying for a while…
How about Dog Phi A synonym for Theology is Dogma The advantage of this is that partially dsylexic philosophers would easily understand it
Which leads directly into the joke What do dyslexic, insomniac, agnostics do at night? Lay awake wondering if there is a Dog!
?Philosophy of Theology? … Why, PhilThe, of course. [Sorry, the department of bad puns just lost a major grant.] Good luck with grading!
Ah, but when will Experimental Theology appear on university timetables? Let’s see those gods in action! Whoops, correct the punctuation and spacing for scientific readers: let’s see those gods’ inaction! Or does that risk the forced renaming of university departments to become Department of Atheology?