Two (More) Arguments for Substance Dualism
In the previous post, I discussed modal arguments for substance dualism. Here I defend two more arguments. Both have to do with mereology, the study of the relation between parts…
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Dustin Crummett
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Dustin Crummett recently received a PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Dustin currently teaches there, and works on topics in social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of religion.
Do Humans Have “Souls”? Yes, For Two Reasons
In the last post, I argued for property dualism. I argued that consciousness was not reducible to physical phenomena. So far, I have not addressed what kind of things we…
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The “Zombie Argument” for Property Dualism
In the previous post, I laid out some of the terrain in the philosophy of mind. (If you have not read that post, it is important that you at least…
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Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind
I am writing this as an expansion of my initial three-part series on natural theology. I said at the beginning of that series that there were a number of important…
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Why God Exists | Moral Knowledge and Miracles
In my previous post, I surveyed some evidence for theism provided by physics. In this post, I consider further evidence from our ability to obtain moral knowledge and from the…
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Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Discoverability
In the previous post, I considered the intrinsic probability of theism, arguing that it was not too low. In this post, I consider some important lines of evidence for theism…
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Why God Exists | The Intrinsic Probability of Theism
Theism is something like the view that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. When I was in high school and college, I became interested in philosophy largely because…
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