(February 7, 2022 at 1:57 pm)Nomad Wrote:(February 7, 2022 at 9:50 am)Jehanne Wrote: As everyone knows Professor Antony Flew went from an academic atheist to a deist based, in part, on the work of the physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder, a graduate of MIT, who, in one of his books, defined the kinetic energy of a particle to be proportional to its mass times its velocity. On the shelf next to me is one of my wife's old textbooks, Introducing Philosophy (Solomon), in which Dr. Flew's arguments for atheism are prominently presented.
In the 10 years since his death, what has been Dr. Flew's impact on philosophy, his legacy? Were any of the several thousand academic philosophers in today's World convinced by Dr. Flew's change of position? How influential has been his ghost-written book about his change of heart on the philosophical community? Since he abandoned atheism, who now carries the atheist banner in undergraduate philosophy textbooks?
His dementia probably had the biggest influence on Flew's "conversion" to deism.
So a brain disorder is the primary reason behind Flew converting from one intellectual and rational worldview to another intellectual and rational worldview?
Do we even have documented evidence that he was suffering from dementia at the time of conversion? I hear a lot of claims regarding that, but I'd like to see some evidence.
