Machine Philosophy
Machine Philosophy was first recognized in a graduate philosophy of religion textbook when he was a freshman in college, for being as familiar with the thought of a leading philosopher of religion, “as any living person”.
He earned a BA in Philosophy and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy. He has edited textbooks in the philosophy of logic and classical Indian metaphysics. This year, he published a book of redacted quotations, and is now working on a book on how the criterial assumptions of atheism imply a theistic God.
Machine Philosophy’s interests include atheism, theism, philosophy of mind, self-reference, naturalistic ethics, materialism, epistemology, a priori knowledge, and artificial intelligence.
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
