Tag: physics
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.
Naturalism and Self-Refutation
How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism?