There is widespread belief that compatibilism + theism cannot offer a credible solution to the logical problem of evil. Why does anyone believe that? I think they’re reasoning this way: if compatibilism is true, then, necessarily, God can actualize a morally perfect world.
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 …
Here’s an easy-to-think-about argument against the infinite past. It bears some resemblance to arguments discussed in other recent threads. Though obviously inspired by the Grim Reaper discussion, it does not feature a series of fractions converging toward zero. I don’t think it’s a good argument, but I think there is a lesson to be learned.
In an another post, I gave a Grim Reaper based argument against an infinite past. Here I want to give two more arguments. Unlike the earlier argument, these two arguments are not going to be useful for arguing for the existence of God, since they make use of premises that the atheist is likely to deny.
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...
Over the years, I have published a wide network of arguments against the model of God known as classical theism. Some people find the arguments persuasive...
In this post, I evaluate Feser’s argument for the act-potency distinction. After careful analysis of Feser’s interaction with Parmenides, I conclude that Feser’s argument does not support the act-potency analysis of change.
Why do objects persist in existence instead of ceasing to persist? Consider these two competing theses: So, which theory best explains why objects persist in existence...
In a previous post, I considered two ways of thinking about God’s omnipresence. After careful examination, neither offers a satisfying model of God’s omnipresence. I tease...
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