Alfred North Whitehead memorably described the history of Western philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato.” Perhaps this is even more apt as a description of the history of Christian philosophy.
In this paper, I discuss the prospects of nominalistic scientific realism (NSR) and show that it fails on many counts. In section 2, I discuss what is required for NSR to get off the ground. In ...
Below John Farrell posted an amusing comment: Razib, are you implying there was no clearly defined ‘ontological leap’ from the animal to the human??? I’m going to have to clear this with the CDF in ...