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Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
This article by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy serves to elucidate what metaphysics is(hint:It has nothing to do with the new-age misuse of the term).
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Sean Carroll, Catholicism, & Unfalsifiable Metaphysics
One of the most famous of Thomas Aquinas' arguments is one for a “prime mover” or an “unmoved mover”. The argument itself isn’t really important per-se, it’s actually air tight in terms of premises following to their conclusions. The issue is the Aristotelian metaphysics it assumes and is based on. Suffice it to say, if you’re using the kind of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics favored by modern day Thomists, the conclusion readily follows. What atheists disagree with in terms of the Thomists is the metaphysics they assume.
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NSFW The Passage Of Time by Silvano Franzi
The Passage Of Time Digital Art by Silvano Franzi
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Why panpsychism fails to solve the mystery of consciousness
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – might sound like New Age mysticism, but some hard-nosed analytic philosophers hav...
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Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true
Common sense tells us that only living things have an inner life. Rabbits and tigers and mice have feelings, sensations and experiences; tables and rocks and molecules do not. Panpsychists deny this datum of common sense. According to panpsychism,...
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Science and metaphysics must work together to answer life’s deepest questions
The swarming, ever-changing character of the living world challenges our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality. By John Dupré.