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A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Fourteenth

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…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Thirteenth

A Coin Toss Imagine the toss of a fair coin. Now imagine one hundred such tosses and again a thousand. In one hundred fair tosses, one would expect about fifty to come up heads and fifty tails, with one thousand one w…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Eleventh

Extending the Metaphor Recapping David Ray's Griffin's objections from the last part of this rave. Given all the evil (and in particular suffering) in this world that can be traced to libertarian freedom, things woul…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Tenth

Is Middle Knowledge Even Relevant? This little rave is a reflection on a bit the first chapter of David Ray Griffin's Evil Revisited (Evil Revisited: Responses and Reconsiderations, State University Press of New York, …
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Ninth

Subjective Conditionals ex nihiloYes, again it has been a while, and I really thought I could knock this one out quickly. The reason for this is that I was firmly convinced that my only acquaintance with what is to foll…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Seventh

Buying time It has been a while. The start of theschool year and unfinished work that simply had to get done tookprecedent. Strike that, others seem to manage; so chalk that up topoor time-management. I would a…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 3)

Way back when, I had made a rough thumbnail sketch of what might have been the position of a Thomist or a Scotist regarding the question of subjective counterfactuals and whether we actualize our own essences. I had als…