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The Philosophers' Magazine The Lure of the Cartesian Sideshow Is there an internal mental world that is better known to you than the world outside? In his Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes famously described how he could doubt the existence of a world beyond his own mind. He thought he was sitting by the fire in his dressing gown writing, but could he be absolutely certain that he wasn’t in bed dreaming? He couldn’t. He couldn’t be absolutely certain that he had eyes or hands or a bod...

The conscious thought is a sublime matter of ideas, concepts, and qualia

>> i'm thrilled to be here for the fourth year in a row speaking at the national apologetics conference. alex mentioned that i have a new job. i'm the president of the king's college in new york city. it's a christian college, with a quite unique mission. most christian colleges, and sometimes are a shelter from society. they protect christian students from what is deemed often right as the toxic influence of mainstream institutions. one of the dangers, however, is that when you insulate young people from mainstream institutions, you cut them off from those institutions. the reason t...

.. you are doomed in the postwar elections. >> well, unfortunately we're out of time and we've barely dented this boat. and one of the things that really impressed me with not just the number of parallels between these two long-time painful wars fought by to check for generations now, but the depth of the point that those parallels and also some important differences. so i hope this becomes required reading in our service academies and certainly by our elected officials what to do with issues of war and peace. but i just want to thank you providing this boat. >> thank you so much for...