In celebration of my ten years of blogging I have been collecting some of my posts into thematic meta-posts. The previous two listed my writing on the higher-order thought theory of consciousness and my writing about various conferences and classes I have attended. Continuing in that theme below are links to posts I have written about various things that are not in either of the two previous categories. Some of these I had thought I might develop into papers or something but so far that hasn’t happened!

1. Freedom and Evil
   • This was written for a debate at Brooklyn College entitled ‘If there is a God, Why does Evil Exist?” sponsored by the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
2. There is No Santa
   • Is it wrong to lie to children about the existence of Santa? I think so!
3. What’s So Unobservable about Causation?
   • This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote while a graduate student at the University of Connecticut
4. Freedom of Speech Meets Speech Act Theory
   • Freedom of speech means freedom of assertion but not the freedom to perform any speech act one wants
5. Reason and The Nature of Obligation
   • A discussion of Locke and Hobbes on reason and obligation. I think this was first written for a class I had on social and political philosophy. I argue that both are committed to the view that reason is the source of moral obligation but fear (or some external motivator) is required to get people to conform to reason.
6. Logic, Language, and Existence
   • I discover the problem of necessary existence, and, as usual, also discover that I have reinvented (a crappier version of) the wheel
7. Timothy Williamson on Necessary Existents
8. Stop your Quining!!!
   • Are there any counter-examples to some common analytic truths? I don’t think so
9. What God Doesn’t Know
   • Can we invent Liar Paradox-type sentences involving God’s knowledge? Spoiler alert: yes!
10. A Counter-Example to the Cogito?
    • Are you nothing more than an alternate personality of the all-power Evil Genius?
11. Conceptual Atomism, Functionalism, and the Representational Theory of Mind
    • Can we construct quaility-inversion-type scenarios for the mental attitudes? I give it my best shot.
12. Did Quine Change His Mind?
    • No he did not. The axioms of logic are revisable but we haven’t got any good reason to revise them (yet)
13. God v. the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
    • one of my most popular posts.
14. The Evolutionary Argument against Rationalism
    • Evolution may have built certain facts about our local reality into the brain, thus generating a priori justification (of a sort)
15. The A Priori Argument against Rationalism
    • Is it conceivable that there are no necessary truths?
16. The Empirical Justification of Mathematics
    • Could there be empirical disconfirmation of basic arithmetic?
17. Invoking God Doesn’t Save Descartes from Skepticism
    • Doesn’t the case of Job from the bible undermine Descartes’ claim that God is not a deceiver?
18. The (New) Agnostic’s Manifesto: Part 1 –Preamble
19. Secular Ethics vs. Religious Ethics
20. Breaking Promises
    • When is a promise broken versus excused?
21. Second Thoughts about Pain Asymbolia
22. Transworld Saints
23. The Logical Problem of Omniscience
24. Empiricism and A Priori Justification
25. Reduction v. Elimination
26. Why I am not a Type-Z Materialist
27. Pain Asymbolia and a Priori Defeasibility
28. Summa Contra Plantinga
29. The Unintelligibility of Substance Dualism
30. What is Philosophy that it Sucks so Bad?
31. Identifying the Identity Theory
32. Can we think about Non-Existant Objects?
33. The Zombie Argument Depends on Phenomenal Transparency
34. Bennett on Non-Reductive Physicalism
35. News Flash: Philosophy Sucks!
36. Kant’s response to Hume’s Challenge in Ethics
37. The Identity Theory in 2-D
38. Outline of the Case for Agnosticism
39. Consciousness Studies in 100 words (more) or less
40. The Argument from Photosynthesis
    • Could humans be photosynthetic? The answer seems to be yes and this i bad news for the problem of evil
41. The Design Argument for the Simulation Hypothesis
42. Consciousness as an M-Property (?)
43. If Consciousness is an M-Property then it is Physical
44. Do We Live in a Westworld World??
45. Eliminativism and the Neuroscience of Consciousness