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‘Possible worlds’ are all the ways in which a world can be. A ‘world’ is a complete state of cosmic affairs: all the infinite variations of...
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Is this a joke? Our world, with its vast evils, the ‘best possible world’? It seems absurd. Yet some do claim that ultimately our world will be the best possible...
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David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy at New York University where he is co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, discusses his important new book,...
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Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every...
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What is the deep nature of virtue? If God exists, then what is virtue? Does virtue differ in possible worlds where God exists and where God does not exist? How fundamental is...
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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...
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This is personal. ‘Why believe in God’ can mean two things: ‘what are the possible benefits of believing in God?’ and ‘what are the possible...
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