What We Would Call Dialectic

The front matter of my book 'The Dialogical Roots of Deduction' is already available online! It includes the ToC and the Preface, which offers a summary of the book as well as the acknowledgments (which is what everyone reads first anyway...).https://t.co/QyssckpzdK

— Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes 😷 (@cdutilhnovaes) November 27, 2020

Cambridge University Press

Anthony Andres: Dialectic as a Way to the Principles

TAC: Dialectic as a Way to the Principles by Dr. Anthony Andres

Debate

I remember trying out for the debate society one year and how I didn't like the exercise of finding the arguments necessary to win, rather than practicing arguments for the sake of the truth. The problem was that I looked at it as an exercise of dialectic, rather than that of rhetoric. Unfortunately, the debate society would not have been a good way of learning classical rhetoric, either...

Was this really pastorally necessary?

Pope Francis: ‘Evolution … is not inconsistent with the notion of creation’ (via Call Me Jorge)

Some Thomists have taken a similar line regarding the possibility of some version of "theistic evolution" or another, but it just makes the Roman Church look bad to engage in dialectic poorly.

Catholics still trying to be "scientifically" respectable...

Post by Ignatius Press.