Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Defending the New Natural Law's Incommensurability Thesis

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New Natural Law (NNL) usually gets a bad rap from certain Thomists due to its embracing the "incommensurability thesis." I'll ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

External Reasons: A Natural Law Response to Williams

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In my last post I criticized Bernard Williams' rather Humean argument in "Internal and External Reasons" for arguing that ext...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Bernard Williams on Internal Reasons (Contra Natural Law)

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Here is a short precis I wrote for my meta-ethics class about Bernard Williams' argument for internalism about reasons. Internalism abo...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Ineffability: A Serious Threat to Ambitious Metaphysics

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Consider a squirrel on a tree. There are things we can represent that are simply not within the capacity of the squirrel's mental struct...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Link: Amazing Philosophy Interviews with Bryan Magee

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I just wanted to share a very special link with any readers who happen upon my blog. Several years ago (probably about five or so years ag...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Greg Cavin on Bayes' Theorem and Miracles

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I wrote most of this post several months ago when my friend Calum Miller came to southern California for a semester abroad. Unfortunately, I...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Shameless Hyperintensionalism in Ethics (And Other Areas)

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A hyperintensional position in a sentence is one where substitution of necessarily co-extensional statements does not preserve truth value. ...
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