ABD!
I passed my qualifying exam today, which means I am officially ABD (all-but-dissertation)! The title of my dissertation will be "Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World." The adviser will be James Van Cleve.
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Counterpossible Reasoning in Philosophy of Religion (and Elsewhere)
The latest (July 2011) Faith and Philosophy contains an excellent article by Jeff Speaks on some difficulties related to establishing the consistency of certain claims (he uses as examples the existence of human freedom and the existence of evil) with the existence of an Anselmian God. The basic idea is this: since an Anselmian God is, by definition, a necessary being, establishing the possibility of an Anselmian God is tantamount to establishing the necessary, and therefore actual, existence of an Anselmian God. But these compatibility arguments typically, in one way or another, assume the possibility, and so the actuality, of...
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Alvin Plantinga
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Conditionals
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Jeff Speaks
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Logic
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Metaphysics
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Modality
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Ted A. Warfield
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The Problem of Evil
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Trenton Merricks
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Berkeley's 'Master Argument' and the Theory of Mental Representation
I apologize for the very light posting; I have been busy stressing about my upcoming qualifying exam. But I thought I would break my silence today for some thoughts about (as usual) Berkeley. The following passage from Berkeley's Dialogues (L&J p. 200) is rather notorious: Phil. ... I am content to put the whole [debate] upon this issue. If you can conceive it possible for any mixture or combination of qualities, or any sensible object whatever, to exist without the mind, then I will grant it actually to be so. Hyl. If it comes to that, the point will soon...
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