My Philosophy/Nontheism Blog

• The Tasks of Philosophy--and What Philosophy Should Not Say
• Reasons Matter!
• "A Good Lawyer Can Argue Either Side of a Case; Why Should I Believe That Your Vaunted 'Reasons' Will Help Me Believe Only Truths?"
• Clarifying the Meanings of Words
• Digression:
  • What "Freedom of the Will" Means
  • God's Foreknowledge and Theological Fatalism:
    • Why God's Foreknowledge Might Be Thought to Conflict with Freedom of the Will
    • Why God's Foreknowledge Would Not Conflict with Freedom of the Will
  • Fatalism
    • On Fatalism (How the fatalistic argument--or the anti-fatalist one-- is really just a choice of how to view the future)
    • Necessity: Inevitability vs. Compulsion
    • Circularity
    • Inevitability by Stipulation vs. Derivation of Necessity
• Reference
  
  • A Few Referential Paradoxes Resolved:
    • Referring to Non-Existent Objects:
      • "Pegasus" and "Zeus"
        
    • Referring to Two Objects That Turn Out to Be the Same Object:
      • "Phosphorus" (or "Morning Star"), "Hesperus" (or "Evening Star"), and "Venus"
    • Reference within Belief Attributions:
      • Beliefs about Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens
      • Beliefs about Superman and Clark Kent
• English as an Object-Language
  
  • Linguistic Objects vs. Existing Objects (Nouns, Things, and Labels)
• Paradoxes Based on the Failure to Recognize the Possibility of Error
  • The Preface Paradox
  • The Lottery Paradox
  • The Gettier Problem
• Meta-Ethics:
  • What Does "Ethics" Mean?
  • What Does "Good" Mean?
• Ethics

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