Tag: physics
The Second Law Argument: A Timeline
“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.”
Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe
The material universe must be caused, and it cannot be the cause of its own existence.
Cosmic Fine-Tuning and the Problem of Evil
“Cosmopsychism might seem crazy,” says philosopher Phillip Goff, “but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the universe became fine-tuned for life.”
From the Annals of Evolutionary Ethics
Immoral behavior is obviously, in some sense, behavior that transgresses a law. What kind of law?
The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind
If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain.