Sunday, November 16, 2014

Lowe, Mental Causation and Laws of Nature

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E.J. Lowe has an interesting theory of dualistic mental causation. He proposes a model where mental causation doesn't happen by mental e...
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

The 'How Does it Work?' Objection to Dualism: #1 Different Substances

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"How can the mind move the body?" This is one of the most familiar rhetorical questions for dualists about the mind. It is rhetori...
Monday, September 29, 2014

An Issue With Metaphysical Reduction

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Take a fact F. In general, what does it mean to say that fact F metaphysically reduces to fact F'? Note I am speaking of metaphysical re...
Monday, September 1, 2014

What God Knew and Abraham Didn't

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The traditional story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most perplexing parts of the Bible, at least for philosophers. There seems to be so...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

The Universe is Contingent (And Therefore Needs an Explanation)

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One common fallacy is the fallacy of composition, where one argues from the fact that each part of a thing has a certain feature to the conc...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Quantifier Variance and the Semantics of Quantifiers

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In my previous post I explained the basic idea behind quantifier variance. Now I want to criticize it. In particular, I said I want to poin...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Basics of Quantifier Variance

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When I say that there are tables is it unambiguous what I'm saying? Quantifier variantists say no. Or at least they would say that in ce...