Schopenhauer's Philosophy, Part 1
By Awet Moges (2006) In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer spoke as a Teutonic philosopher, with mighty prose and thunderous proclamations from the lofty heights of classic...
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By Robert P. Taylor (2006) This paper aims to determine whether human free will can exist in the presence of a divine, omniscient being. In doing so, the Foreknowledge Dilemma (that God's foreknowledge...
View ArticleTheological Fatalism, Part 1: Reply to Robert P...
By David Misialowski (2006) It is Jan. 1, 2007. All night, my inconsiderate neighbor has been throwing a raucous New Year's Eve Party. What is especially galling is that he is a fan of 70s disco, and...
View ArticleTheological Fatalism, Part 2: Reply to Robert P...
By David Misialowski (2006) In Part I of my response to Robert P. Taylor's dissertation on the philosophical problem of theological fatalism, I introduced my noisy neighbor – let's call him Sam – who...
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By David Misialowski (2006) In the third chapter of his dissertation, Robert considers the Molinist solution to the alleged foreknowledge/free will incompatibility. It is proposed that God has Middle...
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The Omniscient Book
The Omniscient Book By David Misialowski Oct. 3, 1991, San Francisco This morning I fed yellowcake to the pigeons in the park. They strutted about like diplomats, obsequiously bobbing their heads up...
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A Taxonomy of Fundamental Ontologies, Part 1
By Brian Morton (2009) Introduction A colleague once asked if I could give him “a taxonomy of ‘forms of ontology’ and where properties fit within it.” This paper is a preliminary attempt at filling...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of Fundamental Ontologies, Part 2
By Brian Morton (2009) 2.1 Substance-Ontologies Probably the most familiar ontology in my typology, and the most natural to English speakers, is a substance-ontology. The idea is that being has a basic...
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By Brian Morton (2009) 3.1 Fundamental Historicism Another position one could take is that being in its most fundamental nature is different in different periods of history. Perhaps being looks very...
View ArticleSisyphus Shrugged
By Awet Moges (2010) At the end of the 1949 film, Sands of Iwo Jima, after the US soldiers survive a battle, Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) tells his fellow comrades in the trench that he's...
View Article"Consciousness... the dagger in the flesh”
By Awet Moges (2010) After 7 years, I was burned out by philosophy, yet I continued to haunt the philosophy section in search for anything radical and profound. Amidst the expected titles commonly...
View ArticleSchopenhauer's Philosophy, Part 2
By Awet Moges (2006) (Continued from Part 1...) Book IV The fourth book, regarding ethics in general and particular context, is the "most serious" discussion, largely because it is the most relevant...
View ArticleAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Time
By Robert P. Taylor (2007) It would not be amiss to compare the mystery of time with the mystery of the divine (should any such thing exist). On the one hand, it seems everyone is aware of it. The...
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