abstracts What does 'exist' even mean? "Exist" can be a tricky word. Unless I define the term upfront, people often think I mean something other than I do. When I am talking about the color red, or, the concept of loyalty or morality, I might say that these things don't exist. What
logic Philosophy 101 (philpapers-induced) #12: Logic: classical or non-classical? Having posted the Philpapers survey results, the biggest ever survey of philosophers conducted in 2009, several readers were not aware of it (the reason for re-communicating it) and were unsure as to what some of the questions meant. I offered to do a series on them, so here it is
Creationism Creationist Argument Refuted: Biological Cells as Complex Machines We have had a good insight into the workings of creationists from the last post. Here is the core foundation to Angelo's argument that I would like to take to task today: 1. It is known that complex machines and factories are intelligently designed 2. Biological cells are
God's characteristics God, Logic and the Euthyphro Dilemma I have been discussing God's attributes of late, and the subject of logic is never far away. One aside to this - perhaps the very fundamental nature of it all - concerns logic itself and from whence it came. I am not talking about ideas of whether God
empiricism Empiricism Revisited: Intuition and Epistemic Priority There was a really interesting comment on a thread on my original "Empiricism as Foundational" that would be good to stimulate more discussion. Here it is, from Joseph Graney. So, I would like to offer the following response (in an order unrelated to the above article): 1) Empiricism
Did God Create the Universe from Nothing? On Deduction and Induction and How They Relate to the Kalam I will be reposting a previous article today because ideas of induction and deduction have come up in another post with a few asking for clarification. Here, I will look at deduction and induction in the context of how they relate to the Kalam Cosmological Argument. Alan Duval has also
empiricism Empiricism as Foundational I have talked before about the empiricism vs rationalism debate that has taken place historically and presently in philosophical circles. Today, I am going to explore this a little further. As I said before... Rationalism The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states that rationalists adopt at least one of three statements:
Did God Create the Universe from Nothing? Kalam Cosmological Argument: Causality and a Circular Argument As some of you will know, my most recent book was on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the cosmological argument that deals with the beginning of the universe, concluding in favour of it having a cause (i.e. God). the argument is favoured by apologists the world over. It has obsessed
Cosmology The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Analysing the Form The Kalam is an argument for God creating the universe long used by apologists. In this piece, I look at the form of the argument - those three short, logical lines - and conclude that it does not do what apologists claim it does.
determinism A Syllogism for Determinism I would like to put together a logical syllogism which really expresses the denial of free will through the denial of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities. The idea is that the ability to choose otherwise is rendered incoherent by lacking fundamental grounding reasoning since all deliberation
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