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645How A-theoretic deprivationists should respond to LucretiusJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (3): 417-432. 2015.What, if anything, makes death bad for the deceased themselves? Deprivationists hold that death is bad for the deceased iff it deprives them of intrinsic goods they would have enjoyed had they lived longer. This view faces the problem that birth too seems to deprive one of goods one would have enjoyed had one been born earlier, so that it too should be bad for one. There are two main approaches to the problem. In this paper, I explore the second approach, by Anthony Brueckner and John Martin Fis…Read more
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492Religion for NaturalistsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2): 195-214. 2015.Some naturalists feel an affinity with some religions, or with a particular religion. They may have previously belonged to it, and/or been raised in it, and/or be close to people who belong to it, and/or simply feel attracted to its practices, texts and traditions. This raises the question of whether and to what extent a naturalist can lead the life of a religious believer. The sparse literature on this topic focuses on religious fictionalism. I also frame the debate in these terms. I ask what r…Read more
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395Does physics make us free?: J.T. Ismael: How physics makes us free. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 288 pp, $29.95 HB (review)Metascience 26 (1): 127-130. 2016.This is a joint review of Jenann Ismael's 'How physics makes us free' (OUP).
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