It is the nature of all developmental accounts that there will be fewer at the high end than at the base; in the case of morality, more sinners than saints. Given that fact, a belief in a moralizing punitive God could be expected to have a beneficial effect on many people’s behavior, providing, as it…
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
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[Revised entry by William Ramsey on November 12, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the...
[Revised entry by David Sullivan on November 12, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817 – 1881)...
