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Can Calculators Add? Can Brains Add?
Suppose you had a rubbish that calculator that could only deal with numbers below 100. Assuming that, apart from that limitation, it behaved as calculators normally behave, you’d naturally interpret...
View ArticleA Surprise Point of Agreement With Sean Carroll
I’ve had some great philosophical interactions with Sean Carroll, of late. I was on Sean’s podcast a while back, and more recently he kindly contributed to a volume of essays responding to my book...
View ArticleAre There Objective Values?
A lot of my Twitter debating time recently has been spent defending the claim that there are facts about value that hold independent of our desires. The example I always press is that there is an...
View ArticleCan You Prove a Miracle?
I’m currently taking a week off work, having submitted a draft of my book manuscript (‘The Purpose of Existence: Between God and Atheism’). Sometimes when I take time off, I get lost in a rabbit hole...
View ArticleWhy the Multiverse Can’t Explain Fine-Tuning
A startling discovery of recent decades is that the laws of physics are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. That is to say, for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall in a...
View ArticleMore on Fine-Tuning & the Multiverse
I’ve thought of a simpler way of making the argument from my last post. Suppose Jack is the defendant, and the lawyer for the prosecution shares with the jury that Jack carries a knife around with...
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Are Roses Really Red?
Photo by Milly Sime on Unsplash I’m grateful to Edward Feser for commenting on my work. We share a common starting point, namely our conviction that the qualities we encounter in experience cannot be...
View ArticleIs Consciousness an Illusion?
I’ve just started a Substack, which I’m going to use instead of this blog. Please do subscribe to it. Here is my first post: https://philipgoff.substack.com/p/is-consciousness-an-illusion
View ArticleCan Science Explain Consciousness?
New post on my Substack: https://philipgoff.substack.com/p/can-science-explain-consciousness
View ArticleCan Science Explain Consciousness?
New post on my Substack: https://philipgoff.substack.com/p/can-science-explain-consciousness
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