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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, …
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 7)

Alright now, I have not posted anything lately in part because I have not had a chance to put my thoughts together into anything like a coherent form (so when has that stopped me before you ask?). There is an explanati…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 6)

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that while I calling the below the Thomist and Scotist responses to the problem of subjective counterfactuals, it has been many years since I’ve actually read St. Thom…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 5)

Not a day went by after the last rave when I discovered two things. First, that I had overstated my objection regarding haecceities not being instantiated primitive essences. Let us say that what might be roughly calle…