"HOW lonely sits the city that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations!She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal ( Read more... )

In his Argument For the Identify Theory, David Lewis claims that a causal definition of experience (as a universal) and a belief in the causal efficacy of physics together create a necessary argument for a materialist model of experience. I will examine some consequences of his argument. I feel the logical form of his argument, if accepted as ( Read more... )

You will be able to see this is still a work in progress ( Read more... )

In response to a question somewhere else:

"I would love to hear thoughts and suggestions from everyone else. How would you handle this situation? Am I doing the right thing? Also, could anyone from the Islamic faith share with me some important traditions that I could carry out in my future family? I am sorry for the long post, I had a lot to get ( Read more... )

What do the conservative have that we lack? How is it that in a country where the overwhelming majority of the population is liberal, that conservative are winning anything, let alone major national and state elections? Why does the party of the young, of the rebel, and of the activist fail, election after election, to inspire the kind of passion ( Read more... )

What does it mean to call oneself a physicalist? For the purpose of this argument, I’m defining physicalism in the following way: “The belief that those objects, and only those objects, exist which can be explained in terms of (or reduced to) the primitives of modern physics.” Most every strict physicalist will agree with this statement (with ( Read more... )