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The very best place to start one's study of philosophy is with a good "intro to philosophy" textbook. One very good one is Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliot Sober. I am not suggesting that the Sober text is right on everything (or on anything, for that matter). But, in order to come t...

A motive that, to some degree, moves some professional (academic) philosophers to argue with creationists on occasion is the felt need to combat the insupportable hold that a particular mistaken view of the nature of science has on some supporters of the evolution story. Some of these academic philo...