In my recent article "Just semantics?" I offered this "refutation" of the God of classical theism: "Sometimes the requirements imposed by people on a term just don't make sense. For example, many people's conception of God includes th… Read more

The Chinese Room is one of a handful thought experiments in philosophy that can truly be said to have gone viral. Well, at least within the field itself, although I would recommend any intellectually curious person to learn what it's about. Many excellent accounts… Read more

This paradox in ethics is called the repugnant conclusion . Many people would agree with the following when it comes to designing a policy that affects people's quality of life and the size of the population. A world with 10bln people and high happiness for each is… Read more

In the recent article about the lottery fallacy  I talked about how to spot this fallacy but also how not to "overspot" it and start seeing it even if it's not there. Let's do the same with the fallacy known as the category mistake or category error .… Read more

In a recent article on free will I argued that there are, very broadly speaking, two candidate meanings for the term "free will". I ended the article by asking: which of the two definitions is better? But what does it even mean for one definition of a term t… Read more

This is a response article to a post by my colleague Dmitriy titled   Solution to the Mutant Liar . In a previous article, ReasonMeThis (aka Dmitriy) laid out a two-part solution for circumventing the liar sentence paradox ("this sentence is false" and simila… Read more

I just started following Alex O'Connor  on Twitter and saw he recently posted this neat paradox. I had read about this paradox ages ago but didn't know what it was called. Apparently it's a version of the  preface paradox . I'll let Alex explain it: An… Read more