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This is a blog to discuss philosophy, chess, politics, C. S. Lewis, or whatever it is that I'm in the mood to discuss.

Sunday, February 09, 2025

How a skeptical philosopher becomes a Christian.

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Tuesday, February 04, 2025

The causal exclusion problem in philosophy of mind

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 Here.  Tbe heart of most replies to the argument from reason is that a mental event can have both a mental and a physical cause. There are ...
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Monday, January 27, 2025

Not every pro-lifer says abortion is murder.

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Friday, January 03, 2025

And then there's this: an easy target for pro-lifers, I think

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Thursday, January 02, 2025

From atheism to theism: a scientist's story

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Saturday, December 14, 2024

A question for the pro-life movement: Any which way you can?

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  There is a deep question for the pro-life movement--do you get abortion restrictions anyway you can through partisan politics (gerrymander...
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Monday, December 02, 2024

A critique of my arguments

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Why compatibilism and materialism are incompatible

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  As I see it, materialism has three components. One is the causal close of the physical. The second is the mechanism of the physical, that ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Marginal utility

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  In order for our money to do the most good, should it go to those who have the least?  Socialist idea? 
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Does culture determine ethics?

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  Does culture determine ethics? Are there human rights that exist regardless of what the culture says? The culture of the antebellum South ...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

The consequences of determinsm

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  Determinism is the view that given what happened in the distant past (which you and I had nothing to do with) the future is inevitable. Su...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

How did the argument from evil get to be strong?

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 From C. S Lewis;  It would be an error to reply that our ancestors were ignorant and therefore entertained pleasing illusions about nature ...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

stable laws

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  If God did not exist, would the universe have stable laws. Minds prefer order, so we should expect stsble lsws if theism is true. But why ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

From Facebbok

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Yesterday my kids asked what the world would look like if God did not exist. What would you say?
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Monday, May 20, 2024

Lewis and Nagel

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  In Lewis’s essay “Meditation in a   Toolshed Lewis distinguishes between looking ay and looking along.   Looking at is the third person sc...
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Cause and effect

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If determinism is  true, t he cause has to guarantee the effect. We often use the word "cause" to refer to things that influence, ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

No Free Will?

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Child labor

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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Can an evolutionary biologist believe in purpose?

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 By Zachary Ardern .. 
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Thursday, February 01, 2024

Fallacy of composition?

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  1. Every molecule of the planet Saturn occupies space. 2. Therefore , Saturn occupies space. Fallacy of composition?
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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