Limiting the reach of Amnesty for Political Crimes: Which Extra-Judicial Burdens on the Guilty does National Reconciliation Permit?
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Suppose that it can be right to grant amnesty from criminal and civil liability to those guilty of political crimes in exchange for full disclosure about them. There remains this important question to ask about the proper form that amnesty should take: Which additional burdens, if any, should the…
Back to the Present: Defending Presentist Time Travel
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Abstract: Simon Keller and Michael Nelson (2001) argue that if presentism is at all plausible, presentism and time travel are as compatible as eternalism and time travel. But Kristie Miller (2006) and Ted Sider(2005) aren't convinced. I argue that for their concerns to have merit, Miller and Sider…
Radical Presentism
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Acceptance of a particular principle concerning truth, Truthmaker, and a particular theory about time, Presentism, leads to a problem for past- and future-tensed truths: they lack truthmakers. In this paper I will offer a solution to this problem that will allow both Truthmaker and Presentism to be…
Causal Exclusion and Causal Inheritance: A Defense
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This paper offers an interpretation of Jaegwon Kim’s “Causal Exclusion” and “Causal Inheritance” arguments for reductionism about special science properties, and defends these arguments against standard “compatibilist” responses on behalf of nonreductive physicalism. I interpret Kim’s arguments as…
Reconceiving Evolvability - A Novel Analysis Using Conditional Probability
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The meaning of the term "evolvability" has long been ambiguous within evolutionary biology. Because of this, interpreting and understanding statements made in the literature of the field such as "x is more evolvable than y" has been very difficult. In this paper I propose a novel analysis of…