Ongoing Series on Nominalism vs. Realism

I’ve been publishing some articles with the Colson Centre dealing with the debates between the medieval nominalists and realists, looking at the relevance these debates have for issues in contemporary culture.

Throughout this series I hope to show that these seemingly archaic philosophical distinctions are actually of profound practical significance for how we understand our world today, in everything from sex to food. To read these articles, click on the following links:

• Aquinas, Ockham and the Power of Ideas (Nominalism 1)
• The Ockham Revolution (Nominalism 2)
• Sex and the Ockhamist Revolution (Nominalism 3)
• Food and Teleology (Nominalism 4)
• Gay Marriage and Creational Realism (Nominalism 5)
• Moral Order and Wisdom (Nominalism 6)
• The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars (Nominalism 7) 

Also see my series on Nominalism and John Calvin:

See Also

How Our Public Discourse Became A Circus

• Was Calvin a Nominalist? Part 1: Historical and Theological Background
• Was Calvin a Nominalist? Part 2: Surveying the Scholarship
• Was Calvin a Nominalist? Part 3: Voluntarism, Nominalism and the Theology of Calvin

And finally, here are some misc articles on other subjects that address issues of Nominalism vs. Realism:

• Do Ideas Have Historical Consequences? A Defense of The Benedict Option Chapter 2
• 2016 and the Triumph of Nominalism