Due_Kindheartedness wrote:

Ancient Greeks believed magnets were caused by rocks having souls. We know that this is stupid. Therefore the entire concept of souls is like believing magnets have souls.

Why is this an apples-and-oranges comparison?

Unlike the souls and magnets hypothesis, we don't know that the men and souls hypothesis is "stupid". (Indeed, since knowledge involves true belief, as an argument against souls this begs the question.) 

There is a useful collection of links on eliminative materialism here.

Ouros wrote:

Wait, you mean this one: http://www.thomas-aquin.net/PHPhorum/list.php?f=1 ?

If so, it's a small planet.

That's the one. They clearly know their Aristotle and primary source Aquinas, but, for instance, I've seen one of their administrators correcting himself that God is a brute fact. (I half expected some of the guys from here to show up with pitchforks! Haha.)

The conversation with Ingthorsson was another instance. I remember thinking that some of what Ingthorsson was saying was fairly boilerplate in contemporary powers theory, which is heavily influenced by C. B. Martin. They completely missed it, though, and spent a lot of time talking past him. People here would have been more likely to pick up on it.

I'm considering opening non-English subforums. As far as I know, there really isn't anything like the classical theism forum in French. There is the French Aquinas forum, but it's out of touch with contemporary ontology and philosophy of religion (perhaps because a lot of the work in them is in English). It also (as an Aquinas forum) doesn't really leave much room for the serious Platonist contingent we tend to attract. I like the French Aquinas forum. I check it about once a month. But thems the breaks. I know we have at least three or four fluent French speakers.

Not many Germans. At least a few Spanish speakers. Well, it's just a thought at this point.

I've deliberately left Latin and Ancient Greek out of the main options. The reason will become apparent later.

We've successfully resolved the issues we were waiting to hear back from the host company about, and will be making an announcement within the next couple weeks. Merry Christmas, everyone.