Metaphysics

We are (at long last) embarking on The Intelligibility Problem for libertarianism. Now here's a big task for you: Consider what Kane ha...

We've been discussing Robert Kane's libertarianism. (As noted in class, libertarianism is the view that incompatibilism is the cas...

This is perhaps the shortest blog post I've done: So what do you make of The Consequence Argument?

Here's a nice presentation of the problem of free will by our good friend Peter van Inwagen (who has thought a lot about this matter): h...

We're now considering in class Merricks' reasons for thinking that the Incarnation gives us good reason to reject the view that a hu...

In class we're talking about whether substance dualism (the view that we just are immaterial, non-physical souls) or materialism/physica...

It's video time again! Yea! Here's Peter van Inwagen on the (so-called) mind-body problem. We'll be reading van Inwagen soon eno...