Is Naturalism Bleak? A Reply to Holland and Cottingham

Naturalism and Ontology: a Reply to Dale Jacquette†

For many years now, philosophical naturalism has enjoyed the status of orthodoxy in the Western academy; and it is widely recognized among theists as one of the most important sources of opposition to belief in God. In World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism, I raised two main objections against naturalism. First, I argued that there is an important sense in which natur...

Collin Bleak

My research primarily uses close analysis of the dynamics of a group or semigroup action on a space to discern properties of the group or semigroup. In particular, I am primarily interested in groups of automorphisms of a space and in semigroups of endomorphisms of a space. Supporting this, I have a secondary focus on topological and symbolic dynamics, which itself has lead me to an interest in...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Is Logic all in our Heads? From Naturalism to Psychologism

Psychologism in logic is the doctrine that the semantic content of logical terms is in some way a feature of human psychology. We consider the historically influential version of the doctrine, Psychological Individualism, and the many counter-arguments to it. We then propose and assess various modifications to the doctrine that might allow it to avoid the classical objections. We call these Psy...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It