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23EVAAN: An empirical verification argument against naturalismLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 56 (2): 345-362. 2023.Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN) claims that if both naturalism (N) and evolutionary theory (E) are true, then all our beliefs are unreliable (premiss 1). Consequently, given N&E, the belief in N&E is unreliable (premiss 2) and N&E is self-defeating (conclusion). The empirical verification argument against naturalism (EVAAN) is more cautious and improves EAAN by withstanding a rejoinder of the evolutionary naturalist to premiss 1. EVAAN claims that non-abstract b…Read more
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81Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from ConsciousnessMetaphysica 22 (1): 75-87. 2021.With substance dualism and the existence of God, Swinburne (2004, The Existence of God, Oxford University Press, Oxford) and Moreland (2010, Consciousness and the Existence of God, Routledge, New York) have argued for a very powerful explanatory mechanism that can readily explain several philosophical problems related to consciousness. However, their positions come with presuppositions and ontological commitments which many are not prepared to share. The aim of this paper is to improve on the Sw…Read more
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11Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence?Философия И Космология 17 26-38. 2016.Since modern physicists made more and more advances in precisely measuring the fundamental constants in nature, cosmologists have been confronted with this problem: how do we declare that nature’s constants are fine-tuned for the emergence of life? Many cosmologists assume nowadays that the big bang universe originates from a multiverse that consists of very many universes. Some of these must be fine-tuned for life. A fascinating question arises: Would there be any chance on a life after our dea…Read more
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628An Evolutionary Argument for a Self-Explanatory, Benevolent MetaphysicsSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 2 (2): 143-166. 2015.In this paper, a metaphysics is proposed that includes everything that can be represented by a well-founded multiset. It is shown that this metaphysics, apart from being self-explanatory, is also benevolent. Paradoxically, it turns out that the probability that we were born in another life than our own is zero. More insights are gained by inducing properties from a metaphysics that is not self-explanatory. In particular, digital metaphysics is analyzed, which claims that only computable things e…Read more
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22EMAAN: An Evolutionary Multiverse Argument against NaturalismSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Ward Blondé ABSTRACT: In this paper, an evolutionary multiverse argument against naturalism is presented: E1. In an evolutionary multiverse, phenomena have variable evolutionary ages. E2. After some time T, the development of the empirical sciences will be evolutionarily conserved. E3. The phenomena with an evolutionary age above T are methodologically supernatural. Entities are classified …
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67Flexibility and utility of the Cell Cycle OntologyApplied ontology 6 (3): 247-261. 2011.The Cell Cycle Ontology (CCO) has the aim to provide a 'one stop shop' for scientists interested in the biology of the cell cycle that would like to ask questions from a molecular and/or systems perspective: what are the genes, proteins, and so on involved in the regulation of cell division? How do they interact to produce the effects observed in the regulation of the cell cycle? To answer these questions, the CCO must integrate a large amount of knowledge from diverse sources; the irregularity …Read more
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14Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence?Filosofiâ I Kosmologiâ 17 26-38. 2016.Since modern physicists made more and more advances in precisely measuring the fundamental constants in nature, cosmologists have been confronted with this problem: how do we declare that nature’s constants are fine-tuned for the emergence of life? Many cosmologists assume nowadays that the big bang universe originates from a multiverse that consists of very many universes. Some of these must be fine-tuned for life. A fascinating question arises: Would there be any chance on a life after our dea…Read more
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17EMAAN: An Evolutionary Multiverse Argument against NaturalismSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (2): 113-128. 2019.In this paper, an evolutionary multiverse argument against naturalism (EMAAN) is presented: E1. In an evolutionary multiverse, phenomena have variable evolutionary ages. E2. After some time T, the development of the empirical sciences will be evolutionarily conserved. E3. The phenomena with an evolutionary age above T are methodologically supernatural. Entities are classified according to whether they are (1) physical and spatiotemporal, (2) causally efficacious, and (3) either observed by or ex…Read more
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6Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence?Philosophy and Cosmology 17 (1). 2016.
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