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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Very rough draft of Infinity, Causation and Paradox

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A very rough draft of Infinity, Causation and Paradox is now on github . Chapter 7 is the weakest, I think. I welcome comments about everyt...
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Utilities and deontology

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You are a police officer, and it is looking to you like Glossop is about to kill Fink-Nottle with a shotgun. You hear Glossop say to Fink-No...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

RaspberryJamMod for Forge/Minecraft 1.8.8

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I just updated RaspberryJamMod , which allows one to run python code in Minecraft (using a variant of the Raspberry PI Minecraft API), to wo...
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Trusting leaders in contexts of war

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Two nights ago I had a dream. I was in the military, and we were being deployed, and I suddenly got worried about something like this line o...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Sharp OZ/ZQ 7xx organizer code

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Back when I was a grad student, my dad gave me a Sharp OZ 730 organizer. It had a Z80 processor, and could (slowly) run BASIC programs. Some...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Critical discussion of One Body

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The latest issue of Annals of Philosophy has critiques by Murphy, Taliaferro and Perez, Trakakis, Hamilton, Archard, Griffiths, Wielenberg...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Causation and collapse

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If determinism were true, then since each state could be project from the initial state, we could simply suppose that the whole four-dimensi...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Retributive punishment and Christian forgiveness

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Start with this argument: Christians ought to forgive all wrongdoing. Forgiving includes foregoing retribution. All ought to forego retrib...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Thinking big numbers

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If physicalism is true, then the nature of human beings is probably essentially tied to the nature of our brains, which in turn is essential...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

God is truth

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The statement that God is truth is deeply mysterious. Now the statement that God is love is also mysterious, but it is easier to get a start...
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Monday, December 7, 2015

Marriage in heaven

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Question 1: Are there marriages in heaven? Answer: No. Jesus explicitly says that there is no marrying or giving in marriage in heaven (Luk...
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Friday, December 4, 2015

Physicalism, swollen heads, heaven and recurrence

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Assuming physicalism, for any fixed volume V , there are only finitely many internalistically-distinct mental states that a human brain of v...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Coin guessing using past data, once again

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In my previous post , I showed that given a backwards infinite sequence of coin tosses, there is a simple strategy leveraging data about inf...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Coin guessing without the Axiom of Choice

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You've existed for an infinite amount of time, and each day until the year 2100 a coin is tossed. You always know the results of the pas...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The unreality of time

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McTaggart argued that time is unreal. Hence, time is real.
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Alexander R Pruss
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