Current Favourite Podcast - "A History of Philosophy without any Gaps"

Brandon Watson over at Siris has been writing a series of posts on the Platonic dialogues and this has prompted me to write about my current favourite podcast, Peter Adamson's "A History of Philosophy without any Gaps". I came late to this series but it has been a real joy to slowly meander through classical philosophy starting at Thales. So far, I am up to Plotinus but, as the holiday season approaches, I am confident of reaching the latest episodes which are just about to launch into the medieval Christian philosophers.

Adamson himself is a very disarming presenter and I like his style of narration, especially the illustrative stories about Buster Keaton and Hiawatha the Giraffe.

James Chastek on Methodical Naturalism vs Naturalism

A very nice post by James Chastek at his Just Thomism blog.

I never understood why the following was not blindingly obvious, but it clearly isn't.

"If, for example, you wanted to study and learn Euclid’s Elements you have to be “methodologically Euclidian” but this in no way commits you to Euclidianism, i.e. the claim that Lobachevsky’s or Reimann’s geometries were false; if you want to explain classical physics then you have to be “methologically Newtonian”, even if you think that Newtonianism is false."

Feser on Hart on Natural Law

Ed Feser weighs in on David Bentley Hart's recent critique of Natural Law Theory.

Also Brandon Watson over at Siris makes some further points.

Watson on Hart on Natural Law

Brandon Watson attempts to rebut David Bentley Hart's analysis of Natural Law Theory.

I have great respect for both parties and it is good to see substantive discussion.