The Big List of Existing Things

12 September, 201717 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 13 Comments

We feel there should be a clear answer to the question of whether some thing exists or not. I argue that often there isn't, because follwing our self-contradictory intuitions leads us to weird places. Instead we should interpret talk about what exists as talk about how we best represent the world.
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Erisology of Self and Will, Part 7: Closing Thoughtsq

11 August, 20174 April, 2018 ~ John Nerst ~ 1 Comment

Part 7 of a series adapted from my 2009 Bachelor's Thesis in philosophy. This last part is a summary and some thoughts on how to deal with the problems described in the series, why a hardline attitude is counterproductive and how we want freedom and responsibility to be metaphysically real. Also criticism from present-me.
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