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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Metaethics and emotion

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Suppose that someone notes that the digits of π starting at some position n start looking like they have an odd pattern, and it occurs to ...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Mental properties and union dualism

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Suppose union dualism is true (I am a composite consisting of soul and body) and I am looking at a red cube. Then I am consciously aware of ...

Antinatalism and proxy consent

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Consider the consent argument for antinatalism (the view that human reproduction is morally wrong) that we shouldn’t impose great risks on p...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Virtue and tasks that I don't have to do

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Sometimes I have some onerous task that we seem to have a duty to perform. And then something happens—perhaps we learn something or perhaps ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Corruptionism and time travel

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Corruptionism is the Christian view that at death we cease to exist, and only return to existence at the resurrection of the dead. There are...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Finetuning the multiverse

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It has occurred to me that there is a kind of fine-tuning of multiverse theories. If there is too large a variety of universes within a mul...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

A new Thomistic view of the Trinity

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I think the historical Aquinas’ solution to how God is one in three persons is a relative identity view that posits two kinds of identity: ...

Trinity, quaternity and naming God

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One now-classic solution to some of the challenges of the doctrine of the Trinity is relative identity. On relative identity accounts of the...
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Monday, March 2, 2026

A technical problem with brutal composition

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Markosian once proposed brutal composition as an answer to the question of when a (proper) plurality of objects composes a whole: compositi...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Sign of the Cross and the Trinity

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A principle that both Catholic and Orthodox Christians appreciate is lex orandi, lex credendi : the law of prayer is the law of faith, Now ...
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The filioque

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Suppose we model the Trinity as three vertices with arrows between them representing relations of procession, such that: No two vertices h...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Paley's watch and a caveman

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I was teaching Paley, for the n th time, and it hit me to wonder how I would react to finding the watch if I was a caveman. There is one thi...
Monday, February 23, 2026

A variant of the preface paradox

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Imagine being given a list generated as follows, without being told how it was generated: A randomly chosen set of 2000 mutually consisten...
Friday, February 20, 2026

A test case for explanationism

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Here is a test case for explanationist stories about initial priors, on which a more explanatory theory has a higher initial prior. Consider...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

How has Aquinas not proved the Trinity?

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St Thomas holds that we cannot know by natural reason that God is a Trinity. However, he also endorses a version of St Augustine’s account ...
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Alexander R Pruss
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