Congratulations to Jeremy and Samantha Pierce one the birth of their fourth child, Jewel Elisabeth Pierce. She was born at 10:36 pm on August 18, 2008, weighing in at 6 lbs. 9 oz. Jeremy reports that mommy and baby are both doing fine.
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Welcome to the Knowledge of God Prosblogion reading group! Each week, we will read a section of the book, and the section breakdown and ordering is as follows:
C. 1 (1-30), C. 1 (30-69), C. 4, C. 5, C. 2 (70-108), C. 2 (108-150), C. 3, C. 6.
Each Monday, a different Prosblogion contributor will write an opening post. Other contributors can post on that section two or three days later in the week. Everybody is welcome to read along in the book and comment.
It's a pleasure to kick-off all the fun. Let me summarize the main claims that I take Plantinga to argue for in my section.
I) If God exists, then it is likely that many people know that God exists.
II) If Christian belief is true, then it is likely that many people know that it is true.
III) If naturalism is true, then no biological organs function properly or improperly.
Plantinga's defends (I) and (II) as follows:
Though it went uncommented on at the time, last week Prosblogion passed the four year marker. Thanks to all the contributors and commenters who continue to make this site a success. Thanks especially to Jeremy Pierce for originally suggested the idea for the site. Readers can look forward to new developments on the site, including fresh voices as we add new contributors in the coming months. As always, advanced graduate students and professional philosophers interested in contributing to Prosblogion should contact me directly.
One new development is the advent of the Prosblogion reading group. A number of contributors have gotten together to read Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley's new book Knowledge of God, part of Blackwell's Great Debates in Philosophy series. You can expect the first post, on the first half of chapter one, beginning June 30th. Our plan is to put up fresh posts on the book every Monday thereafter. For those of you that would like to read along, you can help out funding this place by purchasing the book from Amazon.
Here's to another year of thoughtful and engaging posts and discussions!
Please join me in welcoming Prosblogion's latest contributor Martijn Blaauw. Martijn is a Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department of the Amsterdam Free University. Many of you will no doubt be familiar with his work on contrastivism and contextualism. I had the good fortune to meet Martijn this summer while in Amsterdam, and I'm pleased that he has accepted the invitation to join us here.
Please join me in welcoming Prosblogion's latest contributor Robert Gressis. Rob recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, and starting this Fall will be a postdoctoral fellow at Notre Dame's Center for the Philosophy of Religion. You can find out more about his philosophical interests on his profile.
I'd like to welcome Prosblogion's latest contributor Clayton Littlejohn. Some of you will know of Clayton from his comments here or from his personal blog Think Tonk. Currently Clayton is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Southern Methodist University. Most of his current research concerns the justification of belief and action and assorted issues in the philosophy of mind.
Please join me in welcoming Clayton to the site.
It's time once again to celebrate this site's entry into the blogoshpere. I suspect that being three makes us old as blogs go. In the past three years we've logged 387 posts, which have garnered 3062 comments. Several of those posts have even led to published papers. Traffic to the site continues to climb. This year the site has averaged over 850 visits per day for a total of over 300,000 visits.
Thanks to all of my fellow contributors and our fabulous commenters for making Prosblogion such an excellent site to visit and contribute to. I look forward to another year of thoughtful and engaging posts and discussions.
I'd like to welcome Prosblogion's latest contributor Alexander Pruss. Alex is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, but has unofficially accepted an appointment to join the philosophy faculty at Baylor University. Reader's may want to check out his excellent new book The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment, or his numerous publications in Faith Philosophy, Religious Studies, and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Please join me in welcoming Alex to the site.
Over the weekend it was necessary for me to install some updates for MovableType that fix a number of vulnerabilities in the previous version. While the update plugs some security issues, I spent a fair amount of time fixing things that were broken with the update. (Thanks to Jeremy for pointing out many of the new errors.) Contributors will notice a couple of changes and new features on the backend, but readers are likely to notice two things:
- Comments are open again, which means you should comment on Tim's latest post.
- The security codes for commenting are likely gone for good. (Yeah!)
Over the next couple of days I'll be making some system changes to the site. You'll notice that the look has already changed to accommodate some forthcoming features. If you hate/love the look, or experience any hiccups, let me know in the comments or by e-mail.
[Update] Thanks to those who have emailed me comments! Having beta testers is a great aid. I will be adding back the recent comments function so that readers can easily track ongoing converstations. I've also added the papers blog, a link to which can be found to the right. If you are interested in adding papers contact me for directions. I've also added a number of new ways to syndicate the blog. I think I've worked out all the bugs in the theme but let me know if you get errors or find it hard to read.
I'd like to welcome our latest contributor Tim Pawl. Tim is currently a fourth year graduate student in philosophy at Saint Louis University, studying with Eleonore Stump.
I'd like to welcome our latest contributor David Slakter. David is currently a graduate student in Indian philosophy at the University of Liverpool and he holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Oklahoma.
