metaphysics/mind/language

Theists should be Idealists

God has no need of Matter

Jul 20 •

Richard Y Chappell

The View from Everywhere

Published: 16 May 2025

May 16 •

Richard Y Chappell

What is Metaphysical Possibility?

Part 3/3 of Modal Rationalism (From the Archives)

Feb 9 •

Richard Y Chappell

Meta-Modal Conceivability

From the Archives: a challenge for conceivability-possibility inferences

Jan 31 •

Richard Y Chappell

Kripke vs 2-D Semantics

An Introductory Overview (from the archives)

Jan 22 •

Richard Y Chappell

Modal Rationalism - Intro

From the Archives: on our grasp of possibility

Jan 19 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Best of All Possible Multiverses

The obvious solution to the Problem of Evil

Dec 9, 2024 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Best Possible World

Of those subjectively indistinguishable from our own

Oct 31, 2023 •

Richard Y Chappell

Words Don't Matter

Ethics, schmethics, and semantics: Against philosophical language policing

Sep 5, 2023 •

Richard Y Chappell

Commonsense Moralists should be Idealists

Capturing the surface phenomena

Jun 16, 2023 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Fine-Tuning God Problem

Should we expect a Creator God to be fine-tuned for creating life?

Jul 18, 2022 •

Richard Y Chappell

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