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You Are (Probably Not) a Computer Simulation

This is a revised version of an article that originally appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of The Gadfly, Columbia University’s undergraduate philosophy magazine. Are you a computer simulation?...

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Time Travel and the Soul, Or How to Disprove God

Orbits by Vesna Jovanovic Here’s a thought. If you want to disprove — or at least throw whatever the quantum tech industry’s equivalent of a monkey wrench is into — current conceptions of God and the...

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In Favor of Compositional Nihilism: A Response to the Organicism of van Inwagen

How many objects are in the above box? I say three (the ‘particles’ named A, B, and C), which makes me a nihilist about composition. The universalist says seven (A+B, A+C, B+C, and so on). See Ross...

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