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A Song for Good Friday

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A Song for Good Friday Luke 23:39-42, NIV (for context) One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are […]

For Palm Sunday

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For Palm Sunday — 2016 Just a post to acknowledge that we’re entering Holy Week. For those with an interest in revisiting the old, old story, you can do so, in its four variations, HERE. And while we’re at it, let’s throw in a rendition of the classic Palm Sunday hymn All Glory, Laud and Honor as […]

Alva Noe on Consciousness

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There’s an interesting conversation taking place at the interface between philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience. One of this conversation’s recurring talking points is the hypothesis of the “extended mind.” Some of the key concerns raised speak to whether the human mind is to be identified with the brain, whether the mind’s powers are analogous to the powers of computers, and what difference it might make to the philosophical and scientific study of the mind if greater consideration is paid to the mind’s character as “embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended.” Alva Noë is one proponent of “extended mind” research, and you can get some sense of the flavor of his contribution to the conversation in the following video.

More from Alva Noë:

Action in Perception (Bradford, 2006)
Out of our Heads: Why You are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciouness (Hill and Weng, 2010)
Varieties of Presence (Harvard UnivPr, 2012)

For some further orienting to related discussions in Philosophy of Mind and Embodied Cognitive Science, consider the following for serviceable introductions:

Joseph Schear, Ed., Mind, Reason, and Being in the World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate (Routledge, 2013)
Lawrence Shapiro, Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2012)

Peter Kreeft on the primacy of love over knowledge

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John Webster 2009 Hayward Lectures

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And here’s another lectures series I’d like to share. Back in 2009 John Webster delivered the Hayward Lectures at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was entitled Creator, Creation, and Creature: God and His World.

Its three lectures ran as follows:

God as Creator (posted below)
God and Creation
God and His Creatures

Though these lectures aren’t available in printed form, Webster is at work on a multi-volume systematic theology, which can’t be released soon enough as far as I’m concerned.