metaphysics

6 min read 2022-03-09 17:00:41

Does Existence Exist?

That is not the case when you say “is” alone, for it is by itself “nothing…” – Aristotle (De Interpretatione I, 3) ipsum esse nondum

5 min read 2022-02-20 08:20:54

It seems we cannot be free. To each moment of decision, the schedule of inputs is what it is, and as completely constituting the matter of our

7 min read 2022-02-09 17:00:52

“I do not think that we can possibly deny that there is some other way than the one we have spoken of, on the supposition that God can do what

2 min read 2022-02-09 02:19:38

To think that God is limited to the same sort of creation that is possible to us stems from a category error about God, that treats him as a being

4 min read 2022-01-31 12:45:50

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the

7 min read 2022-01-20 19:06:14

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. His new

2 min read 2021-12-31 11:14:10

In a few sentences, and with his characteristic penetrating trenchance, Chastek demolishes the Turing Test, and for that matter all arguments from

5 min read 2021-12-26 18:00:00

Artist Bob Landström in his studio. (Photos by Isadora Pennington) On the outside, Bob Landström’s house is a nicely updated mid-century ranch

2 min read 2021-12-08 10:43:37

It would seem that the Turing Test fails in principle to test what it wants to test. If we take machines to be mindless per se, then a simulacrum of

8 min read 2021-11-26 19:41:04

Philosophers Patrick O’Connor, Bill Ross, and David Webb are based at Staffordshire University. There they have recently constructed a new, online

6 min read 2021-11-26 04:00:08

In order to defend ourselves we’re going to have to subject father Parmenides’ saying to further examination, and insist by brute force both that

1 min read 2021-11-22 05:00:00

Preston Sturges’s splendid old Sullivan’s Travels is a wonderful film with an important message. (I assume a spoiler warning is not necessary for

1 min read 2021-11-19 11:42:30

I was listening this afternoon as I drove along to a broadcast on EWTN in which the presenter, Al Kresta, was talking to EWTN host and Catholic

1 min read 2021-11-17 16:00:27

The Metaphysical Society of America (MSA) has awarded its 2021 Aristotle Prize to Qiu Lin, philosophy Ph.D candidate at Duke University. The theme of

1 min read 2021-11-09 13:41:38

It is colder now, and gloomier indoors for much of the day. But outside, this November keeps on giving. My walking range has increased again with a