Belief in spirit seems marginal or nearly absent in contemporary philosophy and wider academia. The lack of discussion on spirits may lead one to think that belief in spirits is hopelessly irrational. In this post, I argue otherwise.
This is a guest post from Joshua R. Farris. Here is a bit about Dr. Farris. Bio: Joshua R. Farris is Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow and...
In a blog post entitled, Two More Arguments Against an Infinite Past, Alexander Pruss offers an argument for the impossibility of an infinite past. The argument...
There are indispensable entities in many thought experiments, which we don’t admit into our ontologies, like frictionless planes and ideal gases. Nonetheless, those ideas are useful in many thought experiments. But why should they be so useful? I think it is because they substantively entail certain facts were they to actually obtain.
Well, this is really a challenge for skeptics of a necessary being (a necessarily existing, causally powerful entity), but I wanted a catchy title, and as a matter of sociological observation, atheists are typically (though not always) skeptics of a necessary being. The challenge is this …
An endless future is an actual infinite. Here are five arguments for the conclusion that an endless future is an actual infinite.
In this post I present the puzzle of psychophysical harmony. Dustin Crummett and I discuss the puzzle in a forthcoming OSPR paper (“Psychophysical Harmony: A New...
Let Egalitarian Universalism (EU) be the doctrine that God exists and gives everyone infinite happiness, and that the quantity of this happiness is the same for everyone. The traditional formulation of Pascal’s Wager obviously does not work in the case of the God of EU.
Ed Gracely in Analysis (1988) presented an instructive problem about wagering on heaven and hell. It tells us something interesting about Pascal’s Wager. Suppose you find yourself in hell and Satan himself has pity on you. He offers you this game of chance.
I propose a way of trusting (accepting, relying on, being committed to, having confidence in) theism in an intellectually responsible manner. I do not hold that...
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