There are scientists aplenty, and some philosophers also, who believe that it already has been settled scientifically that free-will is impossible....
I agree that the best thinkers are able to either merge traditions or, at least, not be dismissive of the other tradition on ground of mere...
Sure... Peter F. Strawson, Gareth Evans, Michael Dummett, David Wiggins, Sabina Lovibond, Michael Luntley and Jennifer Hornsby, just to mention a...
So, if I have gone to work every Monday morning at 8h30 for twenty weeks in a row, some scientist can predict with great accuracy that I will again...
I don't think Benjamin Libet's 'free-will' experiments have the implications most commentators (and Libet himself) have taken them to have regarding...
I studied music in college, did undergraduate studies in mathematical-physics and pursued graduate studies in philosophy. No, I haven't had the...
Yes, I agree that the simultaneous ascription of omniscience and free-will to one individual raises difficult and paradoxical issues. To put it in...
Clusterinflux already mentioned the infamous quote about "persons whose minds are so open that their brains fall out." Maybe some other persons...
For sure. What do you infer from that regarding human free-will?
I don't get it. Better knowledge might increase your predictive powers, as I see it, and hence enables you to (potentially, yet fallibly) know more...
(You responded to my post very quickly so you may have missed my last edit. I added an explanatory paragraph about the bushman.) I don't see why...
I also doubt that there is such a thing as the instantaneous present moment (except conceived as an abstraction for purpose of theorising)....
I am pretty sure he just meant that the adoption of a unique worldwide convention (whichever one) makes for less confusion than a plurality of...
I have no inclination to deny the existence of the in between area. The bulk of human life is conducted there. I may just lack the skills required...
I think omniscience is usually understood to mean 'omni-knowledge'. Consider that even fully passive observers -- passive in the sense that they...
I'm not trying to render cogent any complex feature God may objectively have that may be of such nature as to necessarily elude our rational...
You're both wrong. It's nipple size that's the proper correlate of female intelligence.
I am unsure to whom these comments are directed. I myself pictured infallible foreknowledge and omniscience on the model of ordinary human knowledge,...
This had been granted already and in fact it is common ground on both sided of the debate. Remember that it holds true whether someone's knowledge is...
You show an example of a fallacious inference that makes use of a truism as a premise. If you intend this to vindicate your claim that truisms don't...
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