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Damon Young is an Australian philosopher and commentator. His latest book is Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide To Being Free.

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Clayton Littlejohn discusses what may be a surprising consequence of Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

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I address an intuition commonly endorsed by metaphysicians, that there must be a fundamental layer
of reality, i.e., that chains of ontological dependence must terminate: there cannot be turtles all the
way down. I discuss applications of this intuition with reference to Bradley’s regress, composition,
realism about the mental and the cosmological argument. I discuss some arguments for the intui-
tion, but argue that they are unconvincing.

Looks like another interesting article that is out recently with AJP by Jason Turner...Here's an excerpt from the abstract..."I argue that libertarians who endorse the Consequence Argument are forced to reject this naturalistic worldview. The Consequence Argument has a sister argument—I call it the Supervenience Argument—which cannot be rejected without threatening either the Consequence Argument or the naturalistic worldview in question."

John Basl just created a quick guide to Sympoze for new users. It explains how to use some of the core features of Sympoze. A nice guide for beginners and interested philosophers that are not as familiar with social bookmarking websites. Thanks John!

Given reader's interest in Plantinga's arguments concerning the relationship between evolution and naturalism, I thought this fairly recently posted paper by Sober might be of interest. He discusses the logical and evidential relationship between evolutionary theory and particular metaphysical claims about supernatural entities.

Jonathan Wolff yearns for the brevity in writing formerly honed by the precis exam [HT: Leiter]

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