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The musing, machinations, and general misdeeds of a philosophy undergraduate. I like to think about philosophy of religion and laugh at myself along the way.
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Para Impossible (opens the original)
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IntroductionPeople often triumph in the face of unfathomable odds. All the best stories feature a budding hero overcoming a challenge that, from the outset, seemed insuperable. These stories give us hope that we might do the same. Indeed, I think we can. What I don’t think we can do is the impossible. I can’t do what I can’t do, after all!This thought, that I can’t do what I can’t do, sounds like a tautology. Stated more carefully however, the idea is thatPoss-Ability: If an individual has the a
Natural Law has a Vampire Problem (opens the original)
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IntroductionA new discourse on Substack! Natural law! Good? Bad? Obviously false? In round one we had ’s post arguing that Natural Law Theory — hence, NLT — is obviously false (imagine ‘obviously false’ read in a booming voice). Then, in round two, the creatively titled “No, Natural Law is not ‘Obviously Wrong’” written by Dr. Brian Besong at <span class="men
What Tim Can't Do (opens the original)
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Tim’s Grandfather was an evil man; he stole candy from babies on a staggering scale! Tim, on the other hand, is an adept inventor, morally aghast at his grandfathers actions. Tim will try to stop his grandfather, whatever the cost. In order to achieve his goal Tim invents a time machine and travels to 1930, ten years before his birth. Tim finds his grandfather asleep in his bed. Tim draws his gun (which he brought back in his time machine) and aims it at his grandfather. Nothing, it seems, is st
An Argument for Asymmetric Compatibilism (opens the original)
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PreliminariesIn “Asymmetrical Freedom,” Susan Wolf defends a weird view. I would call her view ‘semi-compatibilism’ if the name wasn’t already taken. For our purposes we will call the view she defends ‘asymmetric-compatibilism.’ Asymmetric-compatibilism is the thesis that moral praise for good actions is compatible with determinism, but moral blame for bad actions is not. In other words, agents can be responsible for good actions, but not bad ones, if determinism is true. I want to present an ar
*My* Compatibilism (opens the original)
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How to be an incompatibilistIncompatibilism is the view that the truth of determinism is incompatible with free will, that is to say, it is the claim that if the natural laws are deterministic then no person has free will.1Two questions: what is determinism? Determinism is a thesis about the laws of nature. Determinism is true just in case the laws of nature are deterministic. The laws are deterministic if the description of the universe at a point in time, conjoined with a description of those
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