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CFP: 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

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Go to the conference’s page Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, United States Details The WMU Graduate Student Association of Philosophers is pleased to announce its 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference. The conference will take place January 27- 28, 2023. Currently, the conference is scheduled to be held in person. However, …

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Socrates

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The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.),[1] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously disputed, but his …

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How the Multiverse Destroys the Design Inference for Anything

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Scientists have discovered that our universe displays an incredible degree of fine-tuning. This fine-tuning, found in the laws of physics, makes it possible for life to exist. And it is so improbable that it strongly implies God designed the universe. Unsurprisingly, atheists reject this conclusion and their best alternative explanation is to claim that a …

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Is it Fair for God to Punish People Eternally in Hell?

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The notion of hell is not a popular idea. Those who regard themselves as scientifically informed and morally enlightened, usually regard hell as something that belongs to the superstitious and religious past. For these atheists, agnostics, and “progressive Christians” it might be understandable how people in the Medieval Era could succumb to such nonsense, but …

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