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My friend Abigail Tardiff sent me this great Advent paper craft [PDF], which I constructed with the kids today, and hung from a folded-up...

According to expressivist views in ethics and aesthetics, sentences like "Murder is wrong" or "The Mona Lisa is bea...

Say that a proposition p is shifty provided that there are worlds w 1 and w 2 at which p holds, and a proposition q such that q...

Write down a decimal point. Then choose a digit at random, with equal probability 1/10 of each possible digit. Repeat ad infinitum ,...

I've been telling people about this paper by Rob Koons, defending a grim-reaper based Kalaam cosmological argument, but I didn't r...

Internalism about truth holds that a belief's being true is a function of things internal to the mind of the believer. Coherentis...

I just noticed that my Actuality, Possibility and Worlds book is available for Kindle for under $18. I actually didn't even know (or ...

Suppose that it turns out that, given laws of nature like ours, all sorts of neat self-organization—like what we see in evolutio...

In a 2000 article in the Archives of Family Medicine , Larimore argued that because the extremely high effectiveness rate of hormonal contr...

Here are some fun questions: Is the answer to this question negative? Is the answer to this question positive? What is the ans...

The following is a plausible Liberal principle: It is only appropriate punish that which harms someone or something else, or is inte...

A couple of days ago, an interesting thing happened. Our Department secretary emailed me, in my capacity as Graduate Director, to...

Say that the fecundity of a claim in a logically interconnected text, like Spinoza's Ethics , is the number of claims that logically de...

Using the Tredwell adjacency data , I generated a list of axiom/definition dependencies for all the propositions in Spinoza's ethics. ...

R. F. Tredwell has the data for generating a logical dependency graph of Spinoza's Ethics . I converted the data into DOT format so it...