Let’s just put it this way. There is a reason Dallas Willard is a professor in the School of Philosophy at one of the most prestigious universities in the world – USC. He is smart. We thought we...
READ MOREMy proximate aim in this paper is to clarify the vital role of the IIIrd "Investigation" in Husserl's project for his Logical Investigations (LI).1 My ultimate aim is to show how the LI opened the way to--indeed, constituted--a realist...
READ MORE"Der Erfullungssynthesis dieses Falls ist die Evidenz oder Erkenntnis im pragnanten Wortsinn. Hier ist das Sein im Sinne der Wahrheit, der recht verstandenen "Uebereinstimmung," der adaequatio rei ac intellectus" realisiert, hier ist sie selbst gegeben, direct zu erschauen und zu...
READ MORE"Truth in the Academy: Can We Really Do Without It?" You might be surprised at the suggestion that we might do without it. But while the word "truth" is featured on various buildings, public and private, it is little honored...
READ MOREThis conference calls upon us to say something illuminating about the causes of the current condition of the university system in the United States. Social causation is a notoriously slippery topic. It is difficult to say anything with much confidence...
READ MOREIn his "President’s Report" for 1986-1989, Derek Bok, then President of Harvard University, made reference to some current, well-known moral failures in financial circles and in the political life of the nation. He wondered what universities might do...
READ MOREUtilitarianism is a general tendency within ethical theory that may or may not incorporate a significant phenomenological element, depending on how its basic ideas are developed. At its center is the view that moral distinctions are to be defined in...
READ MOREWe live in a day of moral bewilderment and confusion. It is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. A social critic named “Isaiah” described his time as one in which the populace was...
READ MOREToday is often spoken of as the age of information. Information is vital to all we do, of course, but then it always has been. What distinguishes the present time is that there is a lot more information (and misinformation)...
READ MOREIn the volume of studies which forms the immediate background for this conference1, we read of "the oblivion into which the figure and thought of Brentano have fallen," and of his current "invisibility." (pp. xv, 9, etc.) I believe Brentano to...
READ MORE§ 1. Ontology Presupposed in Epistemology Ontology has frequently been understood as the theory of the ultimate classes of existents or entities and of characteristics of and structures that belong to all entities merely as such.1 Understood in this way acts...
READ MOREIf we are Christians simply by believing that Jesus died for our sins, then that is all it takes to have sins forgiven and go to heaven when we die. Why, then, do some people keep insisting that something more...
READ MORESecular activists seem increasingly hostile. How do we respond? A philosophy professor offers some unique insight. Dr. Dallas Willard of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has been watching the social ferment for a long time. FOTF:...
READ MOREWho Is The Morally Good Person: Morally good persons are those who, in their overall existence, are devoted to advancing the various goods of human life with which they are effectively in contact, in a manner that respects their relative...
READ MORE1. Introduction. Linguistic philosophy is rumored to be dead and gone, its passing unnoticed until long after the fact, and largely unmourned. Gilbert Harman, for one, places its demise well into the past, referring to ". . . the arguments that undermined [note the...
READ MORESomething’s up. Talk with almost any group of pastors, enter any bookstore, and you find the topic is prayer or revival or angels or spirituality. People are streaming to national prayer alerts, prayer days, prayer summits, concerts of...
READ MOREContinuing the Work of Dallas Willard March 2018 Update Dear Fellow Pilgrims, Thank you for your interest in receiving updates about the ongoing work of Dallas Willard. Our intention with these updates is to simply and succinctly keep you informed...
READ MOREContinuing the Work of Dallas Willard May 2018 Update Dear Fellow Pilgrims, Today, May 8, marks the 5-year anniversary of Dallas’s graduation to the next level of The Heavens (2 Cor. 5:1-3). It’s been quite an adjustment for...
READ MOREContinuing the Work of Dallas Willard June 2018 Update Dear Fellow Pilgrims, This month we are celebrating the publication of The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge. The book has been 20 years in the making, and Gary Moon describes its inception beautifully...
READ MOREContinuing the Work of Dallas Willard August 2018 Update Dear Fellow Pilgrims, We have a wonderful surprise to share with you: Yesterday we were notified that the publishers of The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge are making the entire book...
READ MOREBy "epistemic realism" I understand the view that the objects of veridical thought and perception both exist and have the characteristics they are therein discovered to have without regard to whether or not they are in any way actually present...
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