Relativist

No, it doesn't. Cosmology has not concluded our world is dependent on anything. However, cosmologists are working on theory that explains the big bang...

I mentioned it only to remind you that we're establishing a scenario that does not presuppose either LFW or compatibilism. You had said, "I still see ...

So...even if LFW is true, there was no initial step? It seems to me, the natural thing to label as the first step is the decision, which was produced ...

Necessitated? You forget that we're trying to establish a common ground scenario, in terms of what we perceive to be happening. I indeed made a decisi...

3:25PM- I read your response and made the decision to lift my arm at 3:35 PM. Did you have something else in mind? Remember, this is independent of LF...

I don't understand your issue. I established the intent, and I acted upon it- which implies I caused my brain to fire the sequence of neurons that sti...

I'll just point out that the arm-lifting was caused by my intent. Therefore the arm-lifting was an intentional act. Acting with intent implies agency.

That's fine, we can say the firing of neurons causes the arm to lift (by sending electrochemical signals to the nerves that activate the muscles). I o...

OK. 3:25PM- I read your response and made the decision to lift my arm at 3:35 PM. I set an alarm on my phone to notify me the time has been reached. 3...

Why consider any specific spiritual account? I can acknowledge it's possible, but the possibilities are endless, so what's the point? It's like consid...

You must be making some unstated assumption about the nature of morals. The presence of moral intuitions is perfectly consistent with determinism (and...

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It does see that way. I'm fine with acknowledging that materialism may not have all the right answers, but no alternatives seem any better - even in t...

Physicalism is indeed embedded in my worldview. What truths does this blind me to? The only obvious implication is that there may be some non-physical...

No, it isn't. You said this is what Plantinga was saying: "if all mental life—including reason—is understood solely in terms of material and efficient...

Because of our moral sensibilities- the emotions we feel when considering the acts. Do dogs have moral sensibilities? Do they have empathy? Do they ha...

That is not Plantinga's EAAN. Plantinga argues that evolution selects for behavior, not reliable belief. The Wikipedia article I linked to summarizes ...

Meaning is within minds. By writing this response, my objective is to reproduce the meanings from my mind into yours. Of course, this depends on you r...

Is "existing at all times" consistent with your view? This would preclude a caused object from existing eternally. This statement was wrong: "There is...

This is what I see as an enormous problem in your position. It depends on uncritically accepting the existence of magic (or "something even greater")....

I wasn't trying show that evolution necessarily accounts for rationality, I was identifying the glaring flaw in Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Agai...

Google "Kalam Cosmological Argument" - a "first cause" argument for God. Yes, they universally believe God is eternal: existing at all times, past and...

We are one phenomenon. The other 99.99999999...% of the universe needs to fit into the ontology. Chemistry brackets out quantum field theory. Meteorol...

[. I wasn't proposing any responsibility, I was trying to demonstrate that there can be more to the meaning of words than a dictionary can convey. In ...

The Bible doesn't depict its God in this way, but modern Christian philosophers accept the "ground of being" of philosophy, because there is just one ...

My point is that the process is identical whether its LFW or Compatibilist. The only difference is that you assume the mind is an actual source of ont...

This is the opposite of what is meant by a metaphysical ground. See this. A complex object is grounded in its composition, not the reverse.

Intelligibility means making sense of things, so it still seems to be (just) an epistemological paradigm. My questions: Why assume an ontological basi...

Such a God would not be the ground of being.

I don't see that the dichitomy I described is a false one. Even after reading your post, and a good bit of the Talbot article, I could see nothing tha...

What's a better alternative, and how exactly is it better? If there is actual teleology in the world, how do you account for it? AFAIK, it entails pri...

I agree words do not carry a physical force - this is not in dispute. But you didn't respond to my comments about emotive language. Do you reject the ...

The evocation occurs in the listener, as his brain interprets the words. The better term is "emotive language", which refers to: "words that do not me...

Sure, we can evaluate and compare different conceptions of God, but I'm sketical this can lead to actual knowledge of God. Thomism has pros and cons. ...

Libertarian free will implies a person chooses which actions he will take. These choices will be made based on his beliefs and his passions. There are...

IMO, the philosophical accounts do not point to a God of religion. There may very well be a ground of being, but the big question is: does it exhibit ...

I think you're saying that those of us who support some restrictions on speech are basing this on false beliefs about the effects of the speech. Is th...

It's a good question, but I see no strong basis to answer it. Speculative answers are easy, but cannot be well-supported epistemically. It seems to me...

This strikes me as relevant to identifying who your argument would and wouldn't appeal to.

When you claim you can overcome the objections, I think this means you didn't find them persuasive. But reflect on the fact that you persuaded no one ...

I hope that, in your book, you take into account the objections raised in this thread. Although I doubt you can overcome these objections, you could p...

This sounds a lot like Plantinga's (flawed) evolutionary argument against atheism. Purposeful evolution may have only been directed toward faith in Go...

You've simply restated your assertion, and haven't considered the decision process. Deliberative decisions entail a series of thoughts that lead to a ...

But how can a person have actually made a decision that differs from the one actually made? I have been arguing that, irrespective of LFW or compaitib...

Either these things necessitate the decision, or there is some randomness to the decision. Consider any deliberative decision a person makes: he evalu...

Identify this alleged inconsistency. The comment you referred to doesn't do it: Water streams are not capable of intentional behavior. Human minds are...

So you're simply stipulating that a soul exists, and on this basis - you "prove" a god exists. To be clear, I have not been trying to convince you tha...

You have not identified an inconsistency. Here's how you defined "libertarian free will": This definition matches a compatibilist definition of free w...

Assertion without argument. You refuted none of the 3 aspects of agency I identified: -the capacity to act intentionally -the capacity to initiate act...

Two problems with this: 1. We have agency: - the capacity to act intentionally -the capacity to initiate action -we reflect on, and care about, our ac...