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April 24th, 2008

Pruss on Presentism

Alexander Pruss just posted an interesting argument against Presentism. Here is the thought experiment that gets the ball rolling. You […]

April 22nd, 2008

Freewill and Cheating

Attention all philosophers – be careful when you teach your students about freewill. You may end up with a classroom […]

April 21st, 2008

Scientists Say It’s Impossible to Travel Back in Time

If you’re like me and interested in philosophy of time, you may have thought this article which is titled “You […]

April 16th, 2008

An Objection to Direct Reference Theory: Part II

In a previous post I presented an argument from Jubien aimed at direct reference theory that relied on mereological essentialism. […]

April 14th, 2008

Freewill and a New Cognitive Science Study

Neil Levy (over at Garden of the Forking Paths) just pointed out a pretty interesting study that may be of […]

April 11th, 2008

Ask Google Images: Metaphysics Edition

In the comments from this post – Joshua writes: Google images has taught me that I have several false views. […]

April 9th, 2008

Freewill and Eternalism: Part Three

This might be a stronger way to frame the argument for freewill and eternalism incompatibilism. It’s more difficult to dismantle […]

April 9th, 2008

An Objection to Direct Reference Theory

This seems like a very quick and hasty objection to direct reference theory from Michael Jubien, but it’s interesting. Direct […]

March 30th, 2008

The Super Mario Multiverse

Calling all metaphysicians! Would you like a simplified explanation of the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics? Would you like it […]

March 27th, 2008

Freewill and Eternalism: Part Two

Thanks for the prodding in the previous post. Also, thanks to the anonymous comment with that list of readings. I […]