Category: Writings about Charles Hartshorne

The mind of Charles Hartshorne was of such high genius that over the course of his long philosophical career he came up with insights that are so elegant, and of such beauty, that they can be thought of as conceptual miracles. This is not to say that these miracles of thought are supernatural, rather, they… Continue reading The Conceptual Miracles of Charles Hartshorne

Donald Wayne Viney The voice on the other end was Sergeant Reed of Homicide. 　“You still looking for God?”　“Yeah.”　“An all-power Being? Great Oneness, Creator of the Universe? First Cause of All Things?”　“That’s right.”　“Somebody with that description just showed up at the morgue. You better get down here right away.” It was Him all right, and… Continue reading How Not To Be An Atheist: A Neoclassical Response to the New Atheism

Donald Wayne Viney1 The work of Stephen Fry is a treasure chest with many nuggets worth saving, but some of it is fool’s gold. Who could not enjoy the television series (Kingdom) in which he starred as the country solicitor, Peter Kingdom? Who could not delight in his playful reflections on the pedantry of language… Continue reading Stephen Fry and Charles Hartshorne: God and unjustified suffering

By Hyatt Carter “If I were asked, ‘Why do you believe in God?,’ I would not reply, ‘Because of the ontological argument.’ Rather, I would say that it is because of a group of arguments that mutually support one another so that their combined strength is not, as Kant would have it, like that of… Continue reading Charles Hartshorne’s Global Argument for the Existence of God

Donald Wayne Viney “Events far reaching enough to people all space, whose end is nonetheless tolled when one man dies, may cause us wonder. But something, or an infinite number of things, dies in every death, unless the universe is possessed of a memory, as the theosophists have supposed” (Borges, 39). I knew Charles Hartshorne… Continue reading A Slice of Immortality: Remembering Charles Hartshorne

By Hyatt Carter Everyone has heard about the pathetic fallacy, but there is another fallacy, the exact opposite of the pathetic, that is of far more importance. This fallacy, which was first named and analyzed by Charles Hartshorne, is called the prosaic fallacy. Science tends to cast a cold eye on life and the world… Continue reading The Prosaic Fallacy