tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172495642011-04-21T20:43:18.771-07:00Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00166125594816486102noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17249564.post-19377920615183816912007-11-14T18:52:00.000-08:002007-11-14T18:57:21.248-08:00

It may be worth noting right at the start that the name I suggested for this little talk was “The Evangelical Atheists.” [Someone]changed the title in your Newsletter to “The Cost of Tolerance.” He thought the latter title was more likely to draw an audience than the former. All in all, I think it is probably a better title, but Dawkins and Harris and Dennett would probably be offended by the

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While writing an essay on the use of the novel in teaching philosophy, I began to reread some Iris Murdoch novels as well as her philosophical essays. The more I read, the more I wanted to write specifically about Murdoch. Her novels, while thoroughly entertaining and superbly crafted, are always deeply serious and uplifting; uplifting both in the sense that one feels somehow instructed and

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