Sunday, August 25, 2013

Thoughts on the Grounding Objection to Molinism

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So, I want to get a bit more clear on what the grounding objection to Molinism is saying. As far as I can tell at this moment, the grounding...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Essence and Ontological Dependence

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This is my term paper from my independent study last quarter on ontological dependence. I will say beforehand that I did not have enough tim...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Two Inadequate Arguments for a Finite Past

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In this post I will consider two arguments which have at times been brought up in connection with the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA), whi...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Consequentialist 'Bajillion People' Objections and the Divine

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If you are a believer, this argument might appeal to you: (1) It's absolutely wrong to blaspheme against God, as in swearing at God.  ...
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Monday, March 4, 2013

Suarez's Modal Distinction and the Eucharist

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Sorry for the lack of posts and for being bad about approving comments. I've been very busy this quarter as I'm taking three math cl...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

New Natural Law and Deriving an 'Ought' from an 'Is'

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Many people have said that we cannot derive an 'ought' statement from an 'is' statement. In one sense this is trivially true...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

One More Reason Why Russellian Descriptivism is False

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Russellian descriptivism about proper names can be summarized rather roughly in terms of the following four theses. For any object O, where ...