From Athens to Apophaticism: Where to find Knowledge
This is Fr. Deacon Ananias’s most recent paper that he presented at the Society for Orthodox Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) Conference this February in Houston, TX.
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Epistemic Theories and Metatheoretical Validation
This is Fr. Deacon Ananias’s most recent paper that he presented at the Society for Orthodox Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) Conference this February in Houston, TX.
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Is “Epistemology Naturalized” Really Epistemology?
An oldie but a goodie.
This is an old article I wrote back in Grad School. It explores various topics related to epistemology and the philosophy of science, focusing primarily on the philosopher W.O. Quine and his
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An Orthodox Critique of Natural Theology
This paper provides a philosophical critique of natural theology as it is commonly understood in the West. Since natural theology is said to be what the human mind by the “light of natural reason alone” can know about
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The Theology of the Icon: Image and Likeness
Father Deacon Ananias’s paper delivered at the 2024 Orthodox MontaNIKA conference at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte, MT.
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The Reason for Reason
This paper provides a philosophical analysis into the necessary conditions for the possibility of knowledge and explores what could satisfy these conditions so as to provide a sufficient justification criterion for the existence of knowledge. More specifically, I
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Nightly Nous / Giving Tuesday 11.29.22
Holy Scripture says that you will know a tree by its fruit. What kind of tree will the world, non-Orthodox Christians, identify us as? In other words, will we be known as Orthodox Christians? First, we may want
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IOTA Conference Fundraiser
The IOTA conference is the largest Orthodox conference ever held, and its inaugural conference was four years ago in Iasi, Romania, where you might remember I attended and presented my paper on the Dangers of Modernity and Technology.
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Scripture, Traditions, Church History, Epistemology, The Canon & The Reformation
Join me as I am interviewed by Vartan from Full Armor Apologetics as we discuss Scripture, Traditions, Church History, Epistemology, and the Canon.
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Consequentialism and Autonomy versus the Good
As many of you know, not only do I serve as a deacon in the Orthodox Church, I also teach philosophy at college. This presents many interesting opportunities. Not only do I have the privilege of continuing my
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