Wijsgerige reflecties

Possible worlds semantics is a common tool for doing metaphysics. An interesting question is the question of which properties should be ascr...

This week I finalized a new paper titled A Semantic Argument Against the Existence of Universal Properties and Its Implications for the Like...

Stefan Wintein has recently published rebuttals to my refutations of his objections to my modal-epistemic argument for God’s existence. In r...

Let me split the class of contingents. A contingent thing is strongly contingent if it allows for near alternatives. A contingent thing is ...

Suppose that in true metaphysical propositions the concept of ‘object’ and ‘relation’ are convertible, so that for each true metaphysical pr...

Fábio Maia Bertato has published a paper in Religious Studies on my modal-epistemic argument for the existence of God. In his paper he off...

Let God be defined as personal first cause. The even weaker principle of sufficient reason merely asserts that the existence of all actual b...

Take the principle that an infinite regress of causes is impossible. It's an instance of a class of principles P t := 'An infinite ...

Consider a room that contains a chair, an empty table and an empty cabinet. Suppose that this list of things offers a complete description o...

In my previous post I explained that the conclusion of my semantic argument entails that it's metaphysically impossible to be the only ...

The third premise of my semantic argument can be improved significantly. I realized this a few days ago while preparing my talk on the argu...

Many metaphysicians deploy the apparatus of possible worlds. Possible worlds are in principle complete descriptions of how the world is or c...

Let us look at a general objection that is often leveled against the method of drawing metaphysical conclusions from claims about the struct...

Fundamental physics is just experimental metaphysics. That is to say, up until now. For fundamental physics is slowly becoming non-empirical...

" Everyone faces the question of what is 'real' and what is the mere projection of our conceptual apparatus, of which issues a...

Recently I proposed a new argument for theism based upon a metaphysical principle connecting logic, knowledge and truth. Against this argum...

Take the following metaphysical principle, connecting logic, knowledge and truth: 'If it is logically impossible to know that p, then p ...

In the last few weeks I received helpful comments on my paper titled 'A Renewed Argument for the Existence of a First Cause'. This r...

A preprint version of my academic paper titled 'A Renewed Argument for the Existence of a First Cause' is now online available on m...

In metaphysics a distinction is made between concrete objects and abstract objects. A paradigmatic example of a concrete object would be a ...