Witten in 2003, unedited The highly discussed free will debate is based on our folk psychological understanding of responsibility. It is a popular notion that a person who is operating without free will cannot be held responsible for their actions. Since morality is a corner stone of our society, adapting a philosophy such as determinism [...]

Written in 2003, unedited The Free Will debate usually gets broken down to the question, “is determinism compatible with free will?” The answer to this question would seem to definitively answer many questions about our free will. If they are compatible, determinism will be able to live happily along side free will, which would detour [...]

Oh Truth. I’ve used the word, you’ve used the word, but what does it mean?  We want truth to mean “the way things are.”  In this sense it’s a fine word, in that it does describe something- things probably are a way.  The trouble of course is it seems difficult, if not impossible to ever [...]

Is it not that by saying forever you’re acknowledging the contrast to never, not that they are interchangeable? Typically saying forever is an attempt to acknowledge the difference between forever and for sometime, not forever and never. For example, Janet says to Linda, “I will love you forever.” Another way to accurately express this statement [...]

Hey Sid, why is everything nothing? The same reason nothing is everything. You define things by what they are not. This is this because it’s different then that. If it was the same as that, it would be that.