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Alexander Pruss's Blog: The randomness argument against compatibilism
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. The randomness argument against compatibilism. The randomness argument insists that if our actions are not determined by our character, then they are a matter of chance and hence not free. This is the most powerful argument against libertarianism. I want to think about whether the argument presents a challenge to the. As strong as her desire to inherit the money from her uncle. But when desires are sufficiently close in strength, then which desire is the stronger is "a matter o...
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Oh know. You know. No.: De Plague! Da Plague!
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Oh know. You know. No. Thursday, February 11, 2010. Not been posting much. But I should hopefully have something about Averroes and climate science up soon. Really nice review of a book about the plague and medical science in the early modern period:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Giant Foam Thumbs Up. It's Only A Theory. Justin Erik Halldór Smith. Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. My Mind is Made Up. Sure hps. yup. uh-huh. View my complete profile.
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Oh know. You know. No.: Yup. Darwin.
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Oh know. You know. No. Sunday, January 10, 2010. So i be bloggin. or ranting. or what is the difference. this is something i wrote earlier today about on google reader, this article: THE DARWIN SHOW YO! I thought id cry about it blog about it, you know. Know. [edited to de-snark and fix errors]. Well no, but if they do so on the basis of shoddy, incomplete, and inaccurate history, they should be called out on it. Or something. Lets follow that shoe guy instead of Darwin:. January 10, 2010 at 9:12 PM.
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Oh know. You know. No.: February 2010
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Oh know. You know. No. Thursday, February 11, 2010. Not been posting much. But I should hopefully have something about Averroes and climate science up soon. Really nice review of a book about the plague and medical science in the early modern period:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Giant Foam Thumbs Up. It's Only A Theory. Justin Erik Halldór Smith. Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. My Mind is Made Up. Sure hps. yup. uh-huh. View my complete profile.
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Oh know. You know. No.: Synchronicity
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Oh know. You know. No. Monday, January 11, 2010. So Evolutionary Psychology often assumes a certain sort of paleolithic environment as having been essential to human evolution, and thus they explain behaviors by showing how they would have increased fitness back on the ole' cave man days. So I note with some interest some modern idiots advocating a 'caveman' diet as being the healthiest and conducive to a long life: Eating Paleo in NYC. People are idiots. Plus, you know, the whole sustainability thing.
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Alexander Pruss's Blog: Limitations, art and evil
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Limitations, art and evil. It's a standard thought that art thrives on limitations. These may be imposed by the technical capacities of the medium (I was reading this. Today) or by repressive authorities (think here of communist-era Eastern European literature), or they may be limitations imposed by the artist or her artistic community. In this regard art is like sport, where there are rules that constrain one. For we can answer some "Why did God not do it this way instead? I am ...
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Alexander Pruss's Blog: Preference structures had by no possible agent
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Preference structures had by no possible agent. Say that a preference structure is a total, transitive and reflexive relation (i.e., a total preorder) on centered worlds- i.e., world-agent pairs w. Then there is a preference structure had by no possible agent. This is in fact just an easy adaptation of the proof of Cantor's Theorem. Be my own centered world @. Pruss . We now define a preference structure Q. As follows. If agent x. Then we say that c. Otherwise, we say that w.
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Alexander Pruss's Blog: Everettian quantum mechanics and functionalism about mind
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Friday, May 1, 2015. Everettian quantum mechanics and functionalism about mind. I claim that the Everett interpretation and functionalism about mind are not both true. The argument is fairly simple. Any two worlds that are isomorphic under an isomorphism of the quantum structure (i.e., of the Hilbert spaces and the operator algebras) have the same functional properties. Now consider two worlds w. Is an exact duplicate of the temporal portion of our world from a billion years ago to the present. Then w.
