rəˈtrēvəl/ noun the process of getting something back from somewhere
Happy New Year! 2018 was a big year for local philosophy. The PVCC Public Philosophy lecture series hosted nine public lectures. In addition to the PVCC lecture series, I participated in the ASU Philosophy Out West lecture series and the GCC God and Truth panel discussion. Audio recordings of lectures from 2018 may be found... Continue Reading →
My book, Retrieving Knowledge: A Socratic Response to Skepticism, is available in paperback! It went to #1 in New Releases for Epistemology in the ebook format. Let's get it to #1 in New Releases in paperback. You can order it through the link on Public Philosophy Press, or through Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
New book by Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton: Retrieving Knowledge.
The Principle of Clarity begins with the statement that "some things are clear." What is clear is clear to reason. Reason in itself is the laws of thought. Can one prove that some things are clear? Can one prove the laws of thought? Or are these first principles that allow for thought and proof? The... Continue Reading →
Audio Recording of this talk may be found here. The Principle of Clarity states that some things are clear to reason. To demonstrate the principle, consider the contradiction - nothing is clear. If nothing is clear, then no distinction is clear. The distinctions between a and non-a, being and non-Being, God and non-God, Good and... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/wJmB2LzGN4o Here is the link to my talk on "Religion and the Secular after Disenchantment" at GCC on October 23, 2018.
https://youtu.be/XHjkebgR_dA Here is a link to an outline to my talk on Post-Nietzschean Nihilism
https://youtu.be/l5rWx9bzPwc Here is an outline of my talk on Socrates and the Sophists. Audio recording of the talk
Retrieval Philosophy 