Disagreeable Me

Philip Goff To follow on from my previous post, Philip Goff has now released a preview of an academic paper in progress on this topic. Curr...

The Fine-Tuning Problem I've been thinking a lot lately about the problem of fine-tuning and how it may or may not be resolved by appeal...

While discussing my ideas about identity with a friend, it became apparent that I hadn't delved sufficiently deeply into the existen...

This cartoon is an excellent illustration of the problems posed by our intuitive notions of identity. I saw it on television as a child an...

It seems that we cannot tie the identity of a person to their physical characteristics or to the atoms that make up their bodies. The forme...

If there's one part of us that we consider to be the seat of our identities, it is our brains.

In continuing the discussion of our intuitive concept of personal identity, I look at ways in which our physical attributes might be the...

My last blog post discussed the notion that our intuitions are not trustworthy guides to understanding truths that are outside the bound...