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Philosophers and Physicists in the Multiverse of Madness
Whether we're talking about multiverse physics or David Lewis's concrete possible worlds, there's sadly no way to confirm the existence of alternate…
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Time Travel Loops, Causation, and the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
Causal loops are weird to think about. But so are infinite chains. And finite ones! If our minds have trouble processing all of the options, can we…
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An Update and a Question
Two things: (1) Apologies that there isn’t a new essay today. I moved to a new apartment this week and I’m getting ready to travel to the UK to …
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Consistent Time-Travel Movies: A Quasi-Philosophical Love Letter
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Don't Cancel Zizek
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Thinking Harder About Justice: Rawls vs. Cohen vs. Marx
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Sam Harris Has Nothing Useful to Say About Free Will
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Hume in Hell
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality
Some reflections on G.A. Cohen's luck egalitarianism, my dialogue last Tuesday with socialist philosopher Christine Sypnowich, and what it is exactly…
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The Westboro Baptist Solution to the Problem of Evil
The Westboro Baptist Church is repulsive to nearly all other humans. But their "thank God for dead kids" approach is internally consistent in a way that…
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Consistent Time-Travel Movies: A Quasi-Philosophical Love Letter
Most time travel movies rest on deeply confused models of past-future-past causation. So let's take a moment to appreciate the gems that don't. You can…
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Of Course You Can Prove a Negative
Confident pronouncements that "you can't prove a negative" have been all over the internet for as long as I can remember. But there's a reason you'll…
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Marx vs. Proudhon
Some reflections on the class I just finished teaching on "Capital" and an announcement about one I'm starting in May on Proudhon's "The Philosophy of…
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Thinking Harder About Time Travel Paradoxes
"Can" you go back in time and kill Hitler? It might not seem like it, but if not, no one who lives in a deterministic universe (like ours might be…
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How to Be a Leftist Without Being a Utilitarian or a Free Will Skeptic
Why I disagree with those of my comrades who think our commitments to a more egalitarian economy and a less cruel criminal justice system go hand in…
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