Counterparts, Providence, and Recalcitrance Allow me to recap the last blog. Middle Knowledge faces an ontological difficulty; it cannot stand on its own but must be seen as a special case of either Natural or Free Kn…

Last time placed a number of bullet points that seem relevant to the question of whether subjective counterfactuals make sense. The first point was, What in the actual world corresponds to a personal essence? Loosely s…

Alright, so lets approach things from a different angle. What this whole series of raves has assumed is that one is talking about one's self the “thing” referred to is “the whole ball of wax.” That is to say, that w…

Over ten years ago I was discussing a very similar topic (or perhaps the same topic from a different angle) on the Society of Christian Philosopher’s discussion list. My concern was the following, let us say that Charli…

Before starting on this rave, I would like to briefly observe that if both the ontological arguments for and against God’s existence are valid we would have something of a Kantian Antinomy on our hands. Judging from on…