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Determinism is determinism. There is only one kind of determinism. It is not the case that hards believe in outside forces and softs believe...

  If determinism is true, if one person is a murderer and another person is a law-abiding citizen, the ultimate reason goes back before the ...

It might seem counterintuitive to some people that punishing an innocent person can satisfy the demands of justice against a guilty person. ...

  Although the death penalty is appealing in a lot of ways, it is irreversible, which means that if it turns out there is a miscarriage of j...

Jesus stated it in order to cancel it and introduce a higher law which rejects vengeance and payback. He instructs us to respond to our inju...

  Aldous Huxley died on this date in 1963. So did a couple of other famous people.

  It seems to me that there are a lot of situations in which a woman might make a decision to get an abortion. They could be doing it becaus...

  Soft determinism says that even if (and even though) determinism is true, we are still responsible for our actions. What does that mean ex...

An interesting aspect of the free will controversy has to do with the kind of moral responsibility that is at stake. Is it the kind of moral...

At the risk of sounding like Loftus,  Let's look at this from the point of view of an outsider. Suppose I come here from a foreign count...

  Free will, along with the existence of God and perhaps the mind-body problem, is one of the philosophical issues that is of great interest...

  If you say religion is not for me that seems odd in the following way. Religions make assertions about God, Christ, how one comes into rel...

  Is getting abortions as close to zero as possible the pro-life goal, or is it something else? From the point of what I would call abortome...

Either God exists or God does not exists. If God exists, then the people who say that God exists are right, and the people that say that God...

The Constitution says I have the right to bear arms. Does that mean a) a musket (which is what the Founders surely had in mind, 2) a handgun...

  Here is an interesting problem. Working from the point of view of pro-life politics, putting a replacement for Ginsburg on the court with ...

  This  is a paper Anscombe did for the Oxford C. S. Lewis society, which I have not seen until recently. 

R eversing Roe will NOT outlaw abortion, unless you use legal arguments that say that we can show that fetuses are persons in every relevant...

  Republicans keep accusing Democrats of wanting to defund the police. But Biden, in particular, has been crystal clear about his opposition...

  I would never have been able to get get cancer prevention surgery in 2017 under the old system. It would have been sufficiently "emer...