Apocryphal Musings

Broadly construed, illusionism is a thesis about awareness of phenomenal character. It is the claim that any awareness of phenomenal charact...

A proposition can occur in discourse with or without being asserted (Geach, “Assertion”). For example, if I assert “If P then Q”, Q occurs w...

  In a previous post on this blog, I defended a broadly physicalist approach to the mind-body problem. Arguments from causal closure and sci...

In a recent debate, Dr. Dustin Crummett raises several objections to natural law theory (NLT) as an account of human ethics. I’d like to bri...

I wanted to lay out what I take to be the three main reasons to be a Neo-Aristotelian. For those who are interested in reading further, I hi...

• Introduction The aim of what follows is to clarify the ways in which metaphysics, as it is commonly  practiced in contemporary analyt...

The existence of God ranks among the most important mysteries that anyone can e xplore. Countless arguments have been made for and a...