Apologies to anyone visiting the site. The club members have not expressed an avid interest in blogging of the sort that you may find at the links on the sidebar. Still, I myself have also been slacking with posting relevant updates. I will attempt to change that but offer no hard promises. Nevertheless, look for updates in the coming weeks and please by all means drop a comment or two.

There is a (naive) position among some Christians (this is a rather broad term, as a classificatory term but I will use it in the general sense of picking out those persons whom believe what is typically taught in the Anglican tradition) that the Bible is inerrant. This is the position that the Bible is in all respects the literal word of God. There are to me many problems with this position, even giving  Christians the latitude of a certain uncertainty about the issue of faith. The claim is made that it is the word of God, but this claim cannot be quite right, and even as an inspired text it seems there are some textual ambiguities and inaccuracies that strain the credibility of an inerrant text. I am perfectly willing to let the text be allegorical and useful as a piece of historical literature that has many interesting things to say, both as a moral text and as theological text. If the text is a crucial piece of the Christian faith, as the Word handed to Man, then there are many interesting questioned to be asked, not the least of which are questions about meaning and interpretation. At any rate this is not an easily decided issue, as if anything that is worth looking at is, but perhaps a still more compelling question is whether this question about inerrancy is beside the point, that whatever dogmatic and ideological assertions are made in its defense Christianity has no real need for the Bible to be inerrant.

Long the days between updates? Yes, I am not sure this site is as well-trafficked as I would like. Comments, suggestions, a guest post, I welcome them all. Contact me: suphilosophyclub@gmaill.com or erik.gordon@gmail.com

I am looking into more interesting content and some actually substantive posts.

There are undoubtedly many people who are legitimately singled out and honored as great. On the other hand, there are people singled out because they have thoughtful, and insightful things to say. Blanshard I think is the both categories, and I hope that by reading some of his essays you may come away wiser and better for it.

The page is here: http://www.anthonyflood.com/blanshard.htm

There is a Carnival of Citizens posted over at Positive Liberty. The theme is Church and State. Check it out here. There are many interesting posts, and the carnival is really an effort to get you the reader engaged, so get over there, read and engage!

The 43rd Philosophers’ Carnival is up and running. Please take a look at some of the interesting posts.

Well, despite some earnest efforts to get people interested in PRAXIS, I have only gotten one taker. Still not a complete washout, if it can be not called that, I am still hopeful.

If by Friday I don’t get anything then I may can the project for now and just re-post notice for next semester.

Apologize for the slow site updates, been busy and many people haven’t subscribed yet; we’ll see what we can do about that. Until then, sit tight and we’ll have some posts up soon.

I want to poll the readership and ask what you all are reading.

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I am currently reading (parts of) the following:

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction - Michael J. Loux

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings - Michael J. Loux

After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre

Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate - Susan Haack

Accessing Kant - Jay F. Rosenberg

Beyond Justification - William P. Alston

All the Power In the World - Peter Unger

Linear Algebra and Group Theory - V. I. Smirov (Ed. Richard Silverman)