In 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 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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