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:
- 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:
- 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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