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Joe Campbell

@philosopherjoec

Married, retired professor. Interests include baseball, film, music, politics, and philosophy, especially Hume, skepticism, free will and determinisms.

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Trump on Ukraine: An Analogy My neighbors went to Europe for the summer, and I took over their back yard. They return next week and I am declaring an immediate cease fire, so I can at least keep the pool.

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A crime is "complex" since it is not just an event that happens but a wrongdoing without exemption or excuse. It takes a very large chunk of the world to say judgments of blame correspond to it, and it is so large that the term "correspond" loses meaning.

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Cicero, in talking about Chrysippus's view, makes a distinction between "perfect and principle causes," on the one hand, and "auxiliary and proximate causes." This seems like a common distinction. How is it best understood? Please give examples.

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Are these lines of reasoning similar? 1. Given determinism, all causes trace back to factors beyond human control, so human beings cannot be perfect, principle causes of their actions. 2. Given determinism, if God is the perfect, principle cause of everything, then God is

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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads flip.it/Un5eZJ

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Talk of powers separate from regularities and laws of nature strikes me as nonsense, yet it is only when we consider such things that the combination of free will and determinism becomes problematic. If free will is just a power, like all the rest, there is no problem.