Category: Emergent Probability

The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female

Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr. David Fleischacker Good evening. Next year is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae.  It has ties to an earlier encyclical […]...

Lonergan and the Shift to Method

by David Fleischacker   Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. For Lonergan, method is a […]...

Gender Ideology, Evolution, and Finality

I just returned from a fantastic conference on gender ideology in Denver. I use ideology in the Voegelinian sense, as a deformation of the metaxy or the in-between. Eric Voegelin […]...

The Motherly Impulse

by David Fleischacker Generally, one thinks of nurturing when one thinks of motherhood. Usually I find a guttural revolt against this idea today. Yet intrinsically “to nurture” is a good […]...

Book Review: Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box

by David Fleischacker I have been enjoying Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box (first published in 1996, with an update in 2006).  It brings out a significant challenge in thinking through evolution […]...

Part 5a: Horizontal Finality, a note

… marriage is more an incorporation of the finality of sex than  of sex itself. (Finality, Love, Marriage, 45) On vacation, so this will be short.  Horizontal finality refers to […]...