Tag Archives: Epistemology

Knowledge and Evidence: Third Response to Tom Clark

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Tom Clark and Naturalism

In this third look at Tom Clark’s paper, Reality and Its Rivals: Putting Epistemology First, I have just one topic to address: Most thoughtful religionists, paranormalists, New Agers, or adherents of other non-science based worldviews feel, at least to some extent, the force of the empirical imperative: that beliefs need validation independent of one’s subjective …

January 20, 2009 – 7:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Tagged , , , | Comments (13)

Knowledge and Bias: A First Response to Tom Clark

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Tom Clark and Naturalism

Several weeks ago Tom Clark commented here on a blog entry about dualism. Clark is the director of the Center for Naturalism and is (I believe) also responsible for a related website, Naturalism.org. He speaks nationally on naturalism and has authored many articles on the topic. I’ve read several of these articles and exchanged a …

January 18, 2009 – 4:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (22)