If you are not subscribed to parhypostaton's Substack Waking Soliloquies, you should be. The recent 'On Volitive Knowing' is a banger, and it inspired too many thoughts in me to record anywhere else than here. So, guess who has to hear them now? In particular, I want to focus on the inexistence of the One, … Continue reading Some Thoughts about ‘On Volitive Knowing’
Review
Dumsday on Polytheism: Part II
Dumsday makes a lot of engaging, interesting, and provocative points throughout his work, but this final post will focus on two of his points in particular: (iii) inferring plurality from transcendence, and (iv) mapping the abstract to what's on the ground. Of these, the first will take far more of our time. I. Inferring plurality … Continue reading Dumsday on Polytheism: Part II
Dumsday on Polytheism: Part I
In this first post, I want to reflect on two of the points Dumsday makes: (i) how might polytheists appropriate arguments for Bare Theism, or prevent monotheists from doing so? and (ii) how are henads different from bare particulars? I. Appropriating arguments for Bare Theism Dumsday notes that while thinkers like Greer and myself have … Continue reading Dumsday on Polytheism: Part I
Dumsday on Polytheism: Introduction
Travis Dumsday recently published 'Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual: Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion' with Bloomsbury Academic. This is a much needed, and much appreciated work that seeks to bring to the fore and engage with various substantive but neglected philosophical alternatives to prevailing paradigms like Christian theism or Naturalism. He … Continue reading Dumsday on Polytheism: Introduction
A World Full of Gods – Some Thoughts
John Michael Greer is a well-known name in the Pagan community -- whether it's from his works on magic, Druidry, or environmentalism, etc. The man is prolific. Where I first heard of him, however, was from his work on Polytheism: A World Full of Gods. I had left seminary, Catholicism and even Christianity at the … Continue reading A World Full of Gods – Some Thoughts
The Analytic Pagan 