One version of nominalism holds that properties just are sets of things. There is no abstract universal red-ness. There just […]

When I teach personal identity in Intro and Metaphysics, I often have a student suggest that what it takes to […]

A common view in philosophy is that counterfactual conditionals with impossible antecedents are all vacuously true. But I’m very worried […]

A lot of materialists will admit that there are some kinds of entities that are a little more difficult to […]

Seriously? Guantanamo detainees are not human beings or persons? What!?

This is pretty half-baked, but consider the following proposition: (1) January 9, 2008 is present. I think it is a […]