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In Memoriam: James F. Ross A decade before the founding of the Society of Christian Philosophers, before Christian philosophy became an accepted mode of doing analytic philosophy, there were only a handful of such philosophers providing the compass and forging the tools which would establish the direction, rigor, integrity, and fecundity of the craft of Christian philosophy in the analytic tradition. The brave, bold, and brilliant originality of his scholarship coupled with his respect for the Thomistic natural theological orientation secures Jim Rosss position as an incomparable pioneer in contemporary theistic philosophy. Of his many works, consider the two bookends of his impressive career: Philosophical Theology and Thought and World: Hidden Necessities. His Philosophical Theology (published in 1968) wherein he employed the tools of modal logic for feasible arguments for Gods existence and the divine attribute of omnipotence, and his persuasive argument against the Principle of Sufficient Reason, still stand as models of philosophical analysis. Thought and World: Hidden Necessities (published in 2008), is actually a condensed précis of his work since 1980. Given the range and depth of his scholarship, it is a dense and difficult piece of metaphysics from a broadly Aristotelian-based perspective. It is philosophical argumentation with...

 
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A recent report from NEJM about a surviving husband to have the eggs of his dead wife harvested in order to create a posthumous child has raised the question of gender equity in the posthumous harvesting of gametes. With the...

 
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Seriously, there are important issues raised in this piece about corporate efforts to inject Ayn Rand into the curricula at different universities. (Thanks to David Auerbach for the pointer.) Im curious what readers think about the issue of financial donations...

 
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