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- Does Axiarchism predict Theism?
- A more fundamental problem with Yujin Nagasawa’s Problem of Evil for Atheists
- A parody of the fine-tuning argument.
- Commentary on Yujin Nagasawa’s Problem of Evil for Atheists
- Another response to Andrew Loke on the Kalam
- Graham Oppy vs Andrew Loke on the Kalam: my critique of Loke’s argument
- Some remarks on Cameron Bertuzzi’s Kalam
- Why isn’t Atheism the default position according to William Lane Craig?
- William Lane Craig’s moral argument and the speed of light
- Some remarks on Josh Rasmussen’s How Reason Can Lead to God
- Problems for Craig’s view on God and time
- The epistemology of modality and some metaphysical consequences
- A reductio for the EAAN
- The Good and the Great, random thoughts
- Edward Feser’s Aristotelian Proof for God
- Robin Collins, the FTA and the problem of evil
- Hume’s Lapse?
- William Lane Craig on Does the Vastness of the Universe Support Naturalism?
- Divine Conceptualism
- Platonism, a short introduction
- Why is There Anything?
- William Lane Craig says he does not know how they would respond to his three points against Atheistic Moral Platonism
- A New and Improved Argument for a Necessary Being
- The Fine-Tuning Argument
- Hypothetical reasons are just as queer as categorical reasons
- Robert Adams on Excellence
- A tension between Divine Command Theory and the Ontological Argument
- Fine-Tuning, Firing Squads, and Observation Selection Effects
- Multiverses and the Inverse Gambler’s fallacy
- Thoughts on Moral Twin Earth
- Concluding Thoughts on MTE dialectic between Copp and Horgan & Timmons
- Referring to Moral Properties: Moral Twin Earth, Again
- Copping out of Moral Twin Earth
- Milk, Honey, and the Good Life on Moral Twin Earth
- Moral Twin Earth
- Absence of Evidence, Evidence of Absence, and Fossils
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- Free Will or not regardless of determinism or indeterminism
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- Inconceivable Minds
- The Multiverse is parsimonious and not ad hoc?
- Moral Responsibility and Free Will
- Genes do not encode information for phenotypic traits
- Laurie Paul on Temporal Experience
- Libertarian Free Will and punching babies
- Utilitarianism and the plentitude principle.
- Johnathan Schaffer – Is there a fundamental level?
- Saul Smilansky on Free Will
- Reductionism vs Antireductionism in Biology
- Are Fairy Rings an example of Specified Complexity?
- Vulnerability in Scientific Theories without Popperian falsification
- A 5-case thought experiment for giving to charity
- Elliott Sober’s Contrastive Empiricism
- Logical Empiricist issues with theoretical terms
- The prayer-answering God has been falsified
- The Plurality of Causal Pluralism
- The moral fixed points: new directions for moral nonnaturalism
- Are there laws in Biology?
- A proper design inference
- Peter Singer on the life you can save
- Specified Complexity
- Irreducible Complexity
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Does Axiarchism predict Theism?
In this post, I want to reply to an objection by Noah McKay to atheistic axiarchism. On axiarchism, fundamental reality is aimed at goodness; things exist because it’s good for them to exist. While I find this view mysterious, I … Continue reading
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A more fundamental problem with Yujin Nagasawa’s Problem of Evil for Atheists
In this short post I want to explain a more fundamental problem with Yujin Nagasawa’s problem of evil for atheists. In my last post I granted, for the sake of argument, Nagasawa’s characterization of the problem of evil for atheists. … Continue reading
A parody of the fine-tuning argument.
I’ve been watching some youtube videos on fine-tuning lately, and I was thinking about this fairly old video where John Hawthorne was talking about Bayes’ and fine-tuning and how cheese would be evidence for a God with a cheese fetish. … Continue reading
Commentary on Yujin Nagasawa’s Problem of Evil for Atheists
While the problem of evil has typically been seen as a problem for traditional theism, Yujin Nagasawa has argued that it is also a problem for most atheists–namely those that think the world is not bad–and that theists have an … Continue reading
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