| Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e Theodore Schick,
Muhlenberg College Lewis Vaughn
Free Will and Determinism The Luck of the Draw: Freedom as Chance
Thought ProbesThe Devil Made Me Do It: The law recognizes many types of excuses for criminal behavior. What do you think should distinguish a legitimate excuse from an illegitimate one?
| Emerging Defenses to Crime
(http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/excuse.htm)
List of legal justifications, excuses, mitigations | | | | Sleepwalking - Nightmare for the courts
(http://www.colorado.edu/iec/SP200RW/sleep.htm)
Sleepwalking as a legal defense | | | | Forensic Psychiatry & Medicine
(http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artRebirth.html)
Forensic Psychiatry and legal defenses | | | | True Legal/Courtroom Humor
(http://www.voiceone.com/html/legal.html#Just%20Because%20God%20Forgives%20You...)
Collection of strange cases from the Harris Creative Group |
The Book of Life: Suppose a perfect predictor super wrote a book chronicling every moment of your life. Could you do otherwise than what is written?
| Agency and Omniscience
(http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Kapitan/omniagent.html)
Article by Thomas Kapitan from Religious Studies (1991) arguing that omniscience is incompatible with free agency | | | | Free Will
(http://www.rationality.net/freewill.htm)
Article by Walter E. Requadt from rationality.net arguing that there couldn't be a perfect predictor because of randomness | | | | Free Will Contradicts the Idea of an Omniscient God
(http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/freewill.html)
Discussion by Adrian Barnett arguing that nothing can be omniscient | | | | John Calvin: On Predestination
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/calvin-predest.html)
Selection from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (The Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University) |
Defending Determinism: Is determinism self-refuting?
| Some Ways to Critique a Worldview
(http://www.afterall.net/citizens/choi/papers/worldviewcritique.html)
Article by Sean Choi identifying criteria of adequacy for world views | | | | Arguments that Commit Suicide
(http://www.str.org/free/solid_ground/SG0107.htm)
Article by Gregory Koukl from Stand to Reason identifying arguments that are self-referentially inconsistent | | | | Materialism is Self-refuting
(http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/materialism.html)
Excerpt from C.S. Lewis's Miracles | | | | Science/Religion
(http://www.johnhick.org.uk/article5.shtml)
Speech by John Hick (Claremont Graduate University) arguing that physicalism is self-refuting | | | | C.S. Lewis' Teleological Argument
(http://faculty.winthrop.edu/craigheadh/articles/csl.htm)
Article by Houston A. Craighead (Winthrop University) defending Lewis' claim that naturalism is self-refuting |
Genetic Cleansing: Should we use genetic engineering to alter our psychological make-up?
| BLTC Research
(http://www.bltc.com/)
Mission Statement of an organization devoted to altering the human genome to eliminate suffering | | | | Council for Responsible Genetics
(http://www.gene-watch.org/)
Home page of an organization dedicated to fostering public debate about the ethical and environmental implications of genetic technology | | | | Human Genetic Engineering
(http://www.human-genetic-engineering.com/)
Introduction by human-genetic-engineering.com | | | | Reproductive Genetics Resource Center
(http://www.arhp.org/healthcareproviders/resources/genetics/index.cfm?ID=293)
Articles on all aspects of genetic engineering | | | | Human Genetic Engineering
(http://www.probe.org/docs/humgeneng.html)
Article by Dr. Ray Bohlin exploring the pros and cons from a Christian perspective | | | | Human Genetic Engineering
(http://www.gyre.org/news/explore/Human+Genetic+Engineering)
Set of links provided by gyre.com | | | | Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers
(http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm)
Set of links provided by Ron Epstein (San Francisco State University) |
Newcomb's Paradox: Consider the deal described on page 188. Would you choose option (1) or option (2)?
| Newcombiana Applications
(http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/handouts/161033/newtan.html)
of Newton's paradox to nuclear war | | | | Newcomb's Paradox
(http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/newcomb.html)
Article by Franz Kiekeben considering various solutions and presenting his own | | | | Quantum Solution to Newcomb's Paradox
(http://alpha.uwb.edu.pl/ep/RePEc/sla/eakjkl/10.pdf)
Article by Edward W. Piotrowski (University of Bialtystok) using quantum mechanics to solve the paradox | | | | Paradoxes or Fallacy
(http://www.paradoxes.info/NewcombsParadox.html)
Analysis of Newcomb's paradox by Andrew McMillan | | | | Unlimited Room for Thought
(http://www.thegline.com/thought/2001/09-28-2001.htm)
Article by the Gline exploring the implications of Newcomb's paradox for education |
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