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According to Lewis, any pair (or, more generally, plurality) of concrete (he doesn't even restrict it this way) of objects ha...

The following is a basic presupposition of science: If two scientific theories equally well fit our observations, and one of the...

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX announces a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Philosophy beginning in the fall of 2...

This is a very technical note. I've spent a fair amount of time this week thinking about invariant Popper functions. Say that a gro...

I have a post on soul-body interaction on Biola's Center for Christian Thought blog that may be of interest to my readers here.

You promise to meet me for dinner at 7. We say that the promise normally makes it appropriate for me to trust you'll show up at 7. But t...

One of the upshots of a number of my posts on the limitations of probability theory is that there are events that are probabilist...

Some Christians think the Christian scriptures and tradition more reliable on doctrine than on morals. But Christianity came to change...

Suppose that a point is uniformly chosen on the circumference of the circle T . Write A ≤ B for "the point is at least as l...

Notre Dame University Press has my One Body book (and various other philosophy books) on sale at 30% off with code NDE813 until September...

If naturalism is true, we would not expect our metaphysics to be reliable beyond the natural realm, since dealing with the natural...

Suppose I deliberately endanger you, but the danger doesn't befall you. Then there is a sense in which I do you no harm, but there is al...

Boethius gives a striking thesis: The wicked are happier in undergoing punishment than if no penalty of justice chasten them. And I am n...

Let Ω be a non-empty set and F be a field of subsets (i.e., set of subsets closed under finite unions and complements). A Popper funct...

Popper functions encode finitely-additive conditional probabilities. The hope of Popper functions is to allow conditionalizations on ...