The Scythians fight by flying. This is what Socrates tells us, anyway, in Plato’s Laches. He asks Laches himself what courage is, and Laches replies that cou...

Duns Scotus tells us that the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love perfect us as "wayfarers" on our way to heaven. Faith perfects the intellect...

In an effort to get God out of the Laplacean problem of being merely a quasi-scientific hypothesis which may be accepted or rejected on the same sorts of gro...

What is Metaphysics? Metaphysics is not what is represented by the esoterica on display in some bookstores. It is not the subject you study if you want to le...

Yesterday I shared some notes about why I think a theory of divine ideas is important for theology. Today I’m sharing some notes about why philosophers, espe...

Here is a sketch of some of the theological motivation for a theory of Divine Ideas. I also say something about what I take such a theory to be! In my next p...

I just "discovered" a text which is very well-known to Egyptologists and students of Ancient Egypt. Miriam Lichtheim published it as "The Memphite Theology" ...

This week I'm reading a book about the development of monotheism in Ancient Egypt, James K. Hoffmeier's Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism. It makes a s...

I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the voluntaristic aspects of...

My latest journal article is now published by The Philosophical Quarterly. The title is "Scotism about Possible Natures," and it develops a view I find in Sc...

Bernard Williams has a famous paper, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." I've been studying the paper and here is my explication...

Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a toad with a diverse set of friends which includes Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton, who is a newt. Mr. Jeremy Fishes...

On a more or less standard Christian understanding of the world, God is the creator of everything that exists, other than himself. This creation is often des...

This semester's reading list has me thinking about Anselm's Proslogion back to back with Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will. Each book has an argument fo...