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2 years

The Catholic Church is more biblical than the Bible churches, more evangelical than the Lutheran church, more episcopal than the Episcopalians, more priestly (presbyterian) than the Presbyterians, more orthodox than the Orthodox. It has a higher view of baptism than the Baptists.

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Very sad day for the diocese of Austin. The Vatican has taken away our traditional Latin Mass at the Cathedral. Nearly a thousand disappointed parishioners, and a vital, dynamic ministry of the Church devastated.

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@Sachinettiyil They could solve the attendance problem by bringing in the TLM

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Analytic philosophy is a good servant but a poor master.

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My father, Bruce Koons, passed away this morning. He had a quiet, peaceful death, and his Christian faith was strong. He was the best father I could imagine, and he always provided a beautiful example to follow.

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@JessicaBiel It’s a child, not a part of your body. And no abortion is “safe” for the baby who is killed

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“Fetus” is just Latin for “baby”.

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My impression is that most Aristotelians love Plato, but most Platonists hate Aristotle. Is that accurate?

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Apparently, atheists are especially scandalized by the idea that intelligent, well-educated Christians might believe in demons. A little surprising, since that has been an integral part of Christianity (and Judaism and Islam) for thousands of years. Read the Gospels!

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My latest book:

Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?

“The Analytic Thomist,” Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly...

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11 months

The saddest thing about being an atheist is that you have no one to be thankful to.

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6 months

One of my most important papers, now open access:

Does the God of Classical Theism Exist? 1 |

Does the God of Classical Theism Exist? 1 - 1

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If all religions are equally good paths to God, why do we still memorialize martyrs (like Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian)? Weren’t they foolish to sacrifice their lives for a mere verbal difference?

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To be conscious, you first have to BE. Computers, machines, programs, artifacts in general --- aren't.

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10 months

Our book on Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature just came out in paperback:

Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics)

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A fetus is not potentially alive—it is actually alive, and actually a human being. A fetus is potentially self-conscious, with a potential for a self-concept but actually a persin, like you or me

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I’m re-starting my Analytic Thomist blog, after a hiatus.

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3 years

Christ is risen indeed! Happy Easter!

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Unapologetic apologies are worse than no apology at all. Saying “I’m sorry that you were offended” is not an apology

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10 months

May God bless everyone this Christmas, especially those who don’t yet know Him.

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2 years

@3sidedstory @DineshDSouza This Is the right way to deal with a hostile press

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@KatiePavlich She reminds me of Lady Macbeth

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@RFupdates If Christ has only one will, doesn't it follow that He has only one nature? Do you also reject the Council of Chalcedon? If not, why not?

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@visegrad24 @MatthewTyrmand For neocons, it’s eternally 1940

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7 months

Nice turnout for my lecture on Tolkien and philosophy at UTEP. Thanks to Jared Mende and the UTEP Thomistic Institute chapter.

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2 years

Leftists get really upset when one points out that Socrates was a conservative. Socrates was executed precisely for questioning the pretensions of the “experts” (fact checkers) of his day.

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6 months

Saddened by the news that we have lost Robert M. Adams. He was a favorite teacher of mine in graduate school at UCLA. I remember fondly the Sunday Bible studies he and Marilyn held in their homes. Bob was a giant in philosophy. A profound influence on my own work in many ways.

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2 years

Dear Catholic bishops: abortion is de facto on the ballot in every race this fall. Why are you silent?

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2 years

Check this out!

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Christ is risen!

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2 years

A day that I have been praying and working for for nearly 50 years.

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To disparage a theory simply because it is a "conspiracy theory" is fairly stupid. History is littered with conspiracies, both successful and unsuccessful. Our own Revolution began as a conspiracy, as did the French and Russian revolutions. The Cataline conspiracy, the Dreyfus

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2 years

We are in the middle of an epidemic of demon possession.

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1 year

@MQSullivan As someone who will probably be imprisoned someday for my religious and political views, I want our gulags to be as humane as possible

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4 months

@LilaGraceRose Unfortunately, too many prominent pro-life leaders in recent years have been openly contemptuous of President Trump. That necessarily results in a loss of influence.

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@Sachinettiyil Pope Francis

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3 years

@DailyCaller Which is scarier? 1. He’s lying. 2. He thinks he’s telling the truth.

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@PhilosopherJoeC Those who deny the fundamental reality of consciousness or free will incur the responsibility of explaining their apparent reality. Those who do not bear no such responsibility

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10 months

@FeserEdward When you’re standing near a cliff, “backwards” is the right direction to take.

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6 months

My debate with Luis Oliveira (U of H) on the problem of evil at the Houston Institute is available now on YouTube:

Theism and the Problem of Evil: A HI Debate

It’s not at all hard to see that there is a lot of suffering in the world. Philosophers and theologians over the centuries have considered the question of wh...

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2 years

@MattWalshBlog Guns work as advertised

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2 years

The Incarnation = 1 who, 2 whats The Trinity = 3 whos, 1 what

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3 years

1. Systematically exclude theists from university faculties. 2. Argue that theism must be stupid, since no university professor is a theist. 3. Back to 1.

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4 months

I admit I was wrong: I expected CNN, Tapper, and Bash to do a terrible job, but in fact they were the best debate moderators ever.

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6 months

I'm visiting Paris next week. Does anyone know any philosophers there who might be interested in meeting with me?

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2 years

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science Book 17) #Amazon via @Amazon Now free on Kindle!

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New post on The Analytic Thomist, part of my defense of Aquinas's theory of acts of existence:

Six Accounts of Actuality: Taking Stock

In earlier posts I have set out a range of solutions to the problem of accounting for the nature of actual existence: possibilism, actualism, and theories of predication. In this post, I would like…

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My latest post at The Analytic Thomist:

Advice to a Young Apologist

I received the following letter today by email: Dear Dr. Koons, My name is Anthony and I am 14 years old. I am a fan of yours and was wondering if I could receive your comment on some concerns that…

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11 months

I hope that the engineers building our bridges were “indoctrinated” in the true principles of physics and materials science. All genuine education involves “indoctrination”

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@FeserEdward Nice endorsements!

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My latest post at The Analytic Thomist:

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2 years

Trans women are men.

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@AleMartnezR1 Neither. God's nature = goodness. Something cannot depend on itself.

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A interview giving my preliminary response to the excellent article by Schmid and Malpass, criticizing my Grim-Reaper argument. It's certainly not yet an optimal response, but some may find a few ideas I lay out of some interest:

Dr. Robert C. Koons | Neo-Aristotelianism and the Kalam

For our first episode, we interviewed Dr. Robert C. Koons on metaphysics, his Kalam, and more!Like, share, and subscribe (if it's, of course, in accordance w...

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Pro-choice advocates seriously underestimate the importance of the educational function of the criminal law. When a state outlaws elective abortion, that sends a powerful message to every resident: in this State, we hold abortion to be gravely wrong.

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@JamesMartinSJ @DictatorPope We’ve moved on from ‘Scripture and Tradition’ to ‘Neither Scripture nor Tradition’

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@FeserEdward If Aristotle held physics back, why did the revolution in physics happen in Europe one of the few places on Earth saturated with Aristotelian thinking? Apply Mill’s methods!

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11 months

Wow! Internet atheists can be extraordinarily mean-spirited. It’s obvious that I hit a sensitive nerve with this post.

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I’m proudly weird.

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@RealAtheology I've started working on a book on the Five Ways with Dan Bonevac. The magnum opus will follow, probably in a couple of years

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1 year

Great new book out today:

Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics)

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@Bishopoftyler Thank you, Bishop Strickland. Why are your brother bishops silent?

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@rpollittsj The Word of God includes the Tradition. And God cannot change

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What happens if the GOP wins and democracy survives?

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For your consideration on this, the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas: Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?

Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?

“The Analytic Thomist,” Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly...

www.amazon.com

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Extremism in the pursuit of holiness is no vice

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@Empty_America It’s classically called “the fallacy of accident.” Trust me. I know.

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@McCormickProf @jttheophilus So glad to hear that! I’ve spent the last decade doing almost nothing else.

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The right to life (the right not to be intentionally killed while innocent) is the most fundamental of all rights, prior to any right to freedom or autonomy. My right to autonomy derived from my right to exist as a human being

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If Biden’s border has been such a masterpiece, why doesn’t Harris want to claim credit as border czar?

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@worldviewdesign This is a version of the Liar paradox— specifically, the Strengthened Liar. See the “Austinian theory” in Barwise and Etchemendy’s The Liar. Also, my 1993 book.

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@WSJ @Peggynoonannyc @WSJopinion Is anyone more dated than Peggy Noonan?

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@KhalilAndani You can’t hold on to the Trinity without divine simplicity

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My latest on The Analytic Thomist. An account of Thomas Aquinas's theory of actual existence, beginning with the nature of predication:

Five Theories of Predication

How can possibilists account for actuality as an absolute feature of some possible entities and not others? As we saw, we cannot treat actual existence as another accident or accident-like entity, …

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@RealAtheology Naturalism lacks a coherent epistemology—especially of the a priori.

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@RichRaho He keeps using the word ‘mercy’, but I don’t think he knows what it means

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We are determined to save Ukraine, even at the cost of every single Ukrainian life.

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7 months

You can get 20% off Routledge books until the end of the month, including:

Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features 17 original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directio...

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The House should impeach the Vice President and the entire cabinet for failing in their duty to invoke the 25th amendment.

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@MatthewWielicki @TuckerCarlson @stillgray Thank goodness we never see American Presidents trying to jail their biggest opponents!

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If the NY Times reported that Trump had two eyes and a nose, I'd want independent verification.

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President Trump is the most moderate/centrist GOP nominee since Eisenhower. Biden is the most radical-leftist Dem nominee ever

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I thought the glorification of the murder of Marie Antoinette much more disturbing than the Last Supper parody. Killing an innocent young woman and mother for political expediency --this is a corrupt basis for a "Republic".

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@SpeedWatkins I kinda like Metaphysics: The Fundamentals, by Koons and Pickavance

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I was opposed to closures and face masks in October 2020:

Prudence in the Pandemic | Robert C. Koons

We do not exercise moral judgment in the same manner in every instance. Broadly, there are three . . . .

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Good news. My lecture at Cambridge U on “The Demise of Philosophical Materialism” has been reinstated. The Master of St. Catherine’s College decided to override the fellows’ vote. There may be protests, though.

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My latest post on The Analytic Thomist: Divine Simplicity and Possibilism

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@AleMartnezR1 @YouTube But it doesn’t exist as universal in things, but only as particulars.

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A proud ultra-MAGA Republican. Not a fascist —- the Progressives are the fascists. Mussolini was a great admirer of Woodrow Wilson’s war administration

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The Vatican is literally surrounded by walls,

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Interview with Rob Koons world expert on arguments for God's existence

00:00 Introduction01:41 New book on the Five ways03:45 1st Way (St Thomas) Motion14:06 How could a timeless God act in time?16:04 2nd Way (St Thomas) Essence...

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@AleMartnezR1 How does our intuition (built up from purely this-worldly, natural elements) establish a real connection to these necessary moral facts? Theism has the best explanation of this connection.

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@FeserEdward I was going to suggest that Robert M Adams was 1000x greater as a philosopher than Dennett, but then I realized that 1000x0 is still zero.

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The deep state wants us to believe the Lone Gunman theory again?? They’ve gone to that well once too often.

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@PhilosopherJoeC It does "the explanatory work" of agreeing with the world as it appears to us

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My latest post, on Aristotle, time, and the Prime Mover:

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Technical question: is AI capable of producing a facsimile of Biden's voice that would be indistinguishable from the real thing?

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@RichardLoweryTX @DanPatrick Thank goodness there are no programs at UT with "loaded" names. No "Human Rights and Social Justice" concentration, no "Social Justice Informatics", no division of "Equity, Diversity or Inclusion",...

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I'll be taking part in a webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 9 am CDT. Register to participate:

Brain and Artificial Intelligence—A Tale of Two Computers—But Only One Made in the Image of God -...

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Woke up in the middle of the night realizing: Michelle Obama will be the next President. There’s no stopping her

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