Gordon Pettit
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Proverbs 23:4-5
Practical wisdom in a one minute daily devotional from the Proverbs. When we set our eyes on getting rich, especially getting rich quickly, we will typically fail.
By Dr. Gordon Pettit; see more at gordonpettit.org or subscribe @Gordon Pettit
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Abortion Is Immoral - The Impairment Argument by Perry Hendricks
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Using what he calls the impairment principle, Hendricks argues that abortion is immoral. He claims that if knowingly giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome is immoral then having an abortion is immoral. He grants for the sake of argument that the fetus is not a person, and thus avoids the controversial and problematic discussions regarding personhood. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpetti...
Abortion Legal information Revised 2024 - Abortion Laws
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An overview of the major U.S. Supreme Court decisions related to abortion from Roe v. Wade (1973) through the Dobbs decision of 2022, and more recent state abortion laws that include some that are very restrictive and others that are very permissive. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpettit; see more at gordonpettit.org
An Introduction to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsic Properties
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I explain what temporary intrinsic properties are and what philosophical problems arise from them. I VERY briefly consider two resolutions to the problems and potential challenges to those resolutions. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpettit; see more at gordonpettit.org
PHIL 100 Overview of Syllabus and Westernonline site
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PHIL 100 Overview of Syllabus and Westernonline site
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Book 3 Chapter 1
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Lewis discusses Christian behavior and morality in Book 3. He begins by clarifying three unique aspects of morality: how we treat one another, what is going on inside us, and the general purpose of humanity. Christian morality addresses all three aspects. There is broad agreement on the first aspect, but significant disagreement on the other two and whether they are even important for morality....
Peter van Inwagen on the Mystery of Existence: Why does the universe support rational life? Part Two
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Peter van Inwagen addresses the question of why there is a universe that can support rational beings like us. In Part Two, I address three more objections to the conclusion that God created the universe intentionally so that beings like us could exist in it. Van Inwagen concedes that the argument is not convincing, but qualifies that concession in important ways. Note: There is a reference to N...
Peter van Inwagen on the Mystery of Existence: Why does the universe support rational life? Part One
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Peter van Inwagen addresses the question of why there is a universe that can support rational beings like us. He provides a principle that demonstrates a need for the explanation and proposes the response that God created the universe intentionally so that beings like us could exist in it. The overall argument is a contemporary design argument. For more background on the physics and probabiliti...
Richard Swinburne's Response to Parfit on the Mystery of Existence
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Swinburne rejects Parfit's Axiarchic principle as a reason for the existence of the universe as we know it. Instead he uses Bayesian Reasoning to argue that it is more plausible to conclude that God created the universe intentionally. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpettit; see more at gordonpettit.org
Derek Parfit on the Mystery of Existence: Why is the universe the way it is?
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Parfit addresses the question of why anything exists at all, as well as the question of why there is a universe like ours. He considers and rejects the many universes hypothesis and the idea that God created our universe. He then responds that there is an axiarchic principle - an impersonal principle of value that explains our universe. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpettit; see more at...
When is Someone Morally Responsible? Gordon Pettit Part 2
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The topic is free will and moral responsibility. I describe my response to Frankfurt Style Examples (FSEs) as developed in "Moral Responsibility and the Ability to Do Otherwise" (2005). I argue that if we are careful in distinguishing events by causal origins, then we see that FSEs fail to show that one may be morally responsible for x, yet have no alternatives to x. I argue that all versions o...
When is Someone Morally Responsible? Gordon Pettit Part 1
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I present a thesis on the conditions of moral responsibility, but without defending the thesis as a whole, I address challenges to the idea that having genuine alternatives for action is necessary for being morally responsible. I address the genesis and evolution of Frankfurt Style Examples (FSEs) that purport to show that having an ability to do otherwise is not necessary for moral responsibil...
Accounts of moral responsibility or Conditions for holding someone morally accountable
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I follow the summaries of John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza with their overview of accounts of moral responsibility. A driving concern is whether one has to have alternatives in order to be held morally responsible and if the principle of alternative possibilities is true. I give very brief overviews of accounts by Fischer and Ravizza, Harry Frankfurt, Eleonore Stump, Susan Wolf, Peter Straw...
R. E. Hobart on Compatibilism of Free Will and Determinism
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Hobart defends the view that free will and determinism are compatible, and in addition freedom actually requires determinism. He provides a few classic arguments for his view, including one that asserts that having a power to do something implies determinism. He also argues that responsibility requires determinism. I close with a few brief criticisms that are developed more thoroughly in other ...
Richard Swinburne on Personal Identity - Defending Substance Dualism
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Swinburne addresses the question "A person P2 at time t2 is the same person as P1 at t1 if and only if ?" He argues that this is often confused with a different question regarding evidence. He rejects empirical theories such as Shoemaker's and Parfit's, and argues for substance dualism. By Dr. Gordon Pettit; subscribe @gordonpettit; see more at gordonpettit.org
Derek Parfit on Personal Identity - What are Persons? Bundles of Experiences.
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Derek Parfit on Personal Identity - What are Persons? Bundles of Experiences.
Sydney Shoemaker on Personal Identity Part 2: Defending the Consciousness Theory of Locke
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Sydney Shoemaker on Personal Identity Part 2: Defending the Consciousness Theory of Locke
Sydney Shoemaker on Personal Identity Part 1: Defending the Consciousness Theory of Locke
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Sydney Shoemaker on Personal Identity Part 1: Defending the Consciousness Theory of Locke
Roderick Chisholm on Personal Identity - A person is a Tiny Particle!
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Roderick Chisholm on Personal Identity - A person is a Tiny Particle!
Peter van Inwagen on What Rational Beings are there?
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Peter van Inwagen on What Rational Beings are there?
Dean Zimmerman on Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism Part 2
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Dean Zimmerman on Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism Part 2
Dean Zimmerman on Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism Part 1
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Dean Zimmerman on Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism Part 1
How Do Things Persist through Change? Roderick Chisholm on Persistence Through Time
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How Do Things Persist through Change? Roderick Chisholm on Persistence Through Time
Metaphysics: A Starting Point - "The Common Western Metaphysic"
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Metaphysics: A Starting Point - "The Common Western Metaphysic"
David Lewis on Person Stages - Temporal Parts of Persons & Persistence through Change
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David Lewis on Person Stages - Temporal Parts of Persons & Persistence through Change
Persistence through Change: David Lewis on Temporary Intrinsic Properties
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Persistence through Change: David Lewis on Temporary Intrinsic Properties
Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Externality and Idealism Part 2
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Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Externality and Idealism Part 2
Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Externality and Idealism Part 1
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Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Externality and Idealism Part 1
Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Individuality Part 2 - Monism
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Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Individuality Part 2 - Monism
Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Individuality Part 1 - Introduction and Nihilism
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Peter van Inwagen's Metaphysics: Individuality Part 1 - Introduction and Nihilism

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @JurisBird
    @JurisBird 14 днів тому

    A perfect solution

  • @bluesky45299
    @bluesky45299 27 днів тому

    Let me establish the source of “Transcendental apperception”. Quran(only scripture with 100% preservation/accuracy) says:”Allah:there is no deity worthy of worship except he”:The Neccessary life/consciousness,sustainer of life/consciousness.” Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea(“Fitra”)that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology(abiogenesis) via “god of randomness”/”Emergent property”/”law of nature”. Limited/Imperfect Consciousness can only stem from Necessary Consciousness (Allah-One/Indivisible/All-Loving/Self-Sufficient Infinite Perfection)…

  • @dukeduke2562
    @dukeduke2562 28 днів тому

    Thanks for explaining that. And showing you need a balance. What if you worry about others feelings to much. It seems as though my heart is to big at times and gets in the way a lot. Then I hurt for trying?

  • @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk
    @SajiSNairNair-tu9dk Місяць тому

    👉energy is God 😂😊

  • @gaylechristensen6285
    @gaylechristensen6285 Місяць тому

    God's eyes are on the wicked and the righteous both. The wicked could care less, but the righteous strive to do what is right always.

  • @maiuro358
    @maiuro358 Місяць тому

    Great video! Clear, succinct, and organized. Thank you so much!

  • @jiensuyang3915
    @jiensuyang3915 Місяць тому

    Nominalistic sounds bogus. Basically it is against unity of humans. So they made a case for individuality . They do not want collectivist culture . Individuals are easier to fool when they don’t feel they have anything in common

  • @blueopy8884
    @blueopy8884 Місяць тому

    thank you for making this video keep going

  • @joyfull1409
    @joyfull1409 Місяць тому

    Good word!

  • @Khjbyiuvytvu
    @Khjbyiuvytvu Місяць тому

    Well does it work? Like yeah it seems to be working but does it?

  • @KudaIzka
    @KudaIzka 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video.

  • @zaidefox7679
    @zaidefox7679 2 місяці тому

    This video was great I needed more info about her view point after watching an Alex o connor interview and it's very interesting

  • @fwboring802
    @fwboring802 2 місяці тому

    No one DESERVES rewards or punishment, including involuntary confinement. But rewards may be socially USEFUL in promoting desirable behavior. And punishment, or involuntary confinement, may be USEFUL in changing behavior and/or protecting society. Thank you for this video.

  • @KlPop-x1o
    @KlPop-x1o 2 місяці тому

    You're an idiot. The fact that you're doing anything, let alone proposing constructivism is an objective fact. That's an example of what we mean by objectivity, dickhead😂

  • @4Grace4Truth
    @4Grace4Truth 2 місяці тому

    How infinitely complicated we are!

    • @4Grace4Truth
      @4Grace4Truth 2 місяці тому

      Btw, if I listen to all your lectures, then does it logically follow that you mail me a master's degree from WIU?

  • @4Grace4Truth
    @4Grace4Truth 2 місяці тому

    So what's intrinsic about the tennis ball is the rubber substance that is made of and that it does have to have a spherical shape when initially taken in hand, but that ball has the intrinsic properties of rubber (or whatever) that have the hidden ability to change shape (compress) under the intense smack of the tennis racket.

  • @4Grace4Truth
    @4Grace4Truth 2 місяці тому

    Hunger and headaches are not good examples of private-access mental states because they can be observed in physical brain and body states. But he gave a good example of private-access only mental state in his suggestion of the plans we make. Also the sorrow and joys we feel are private-access mental states as no one else can know them by observing our physical brain state.

    • @4Grace4Truth
      @4Grace4Truth 2 місяці тому

      19:00. Yes, I also learned that the body's cells are completely renewed every 7 years- like that old joke: "I have the very axe that George Washington used to cut down that cherry tree over 250 years ago! Yes, indeed, only the handle has been replaced twice and the axehead once!" However, I understand that NOT the gray cells- they grow old with us, and they are our brain. So unfortunately this (if it is true) does not support the argument!

  • @freespiritpearl89
    @freespiritpearl89 3 місяці тому

    I see people who work hard all their life and still end up broke.

    • @GordonPettit
      @GordonPettit 3 місяці тому

      1) When considering proverbs, please keep in mind that these are general principles, not logical (input -> output) statements. 2) I have also seen those who work very hard (at their place of employment) but never get ahead. But many of the cases I am familiar with also include a lack of diligence and wisdom in other areas of life, such as in relating to others or wisely spending money. E.g., My poor grandmother worked extremely hard, but was just above poverty level her whole life, and routinely spent a lot of money on cigarettes and Pepsi. That lack of diligence in other areas is not always the case (See 1) but often there is something else going on where a person is not acting wisely.

  • @joshua_finch
    @joshua_finch 3 місяці тому

    Incorrigible is here confused with indubitable. Incorrigible is unable to be corrected or proven false.

    • @GordonPettit
      @GordonPettit 3 місяці тому

      I read your comment and thought that of course you are correct. I went back to check and I actually repeated that error from Plantinga. So it is on me, but I'm throwing Al under the bus also. (A VERY rare error in wording on his part! - A more common error on my part.)

  • @VonBlessed
    @VonBlessed 3 місяці тому

    Amen 🙏🏾 I need that at 4:45am reading King James version 9.6.2024 GOD BLESS ALL

  • @runiyobeen12
    @runiyobeen12 3 місяці тому

    how can the first be necessary through another? can you explain ?

  • @jasonroberts9788
    @jasonroberts9788 3 місяці тому

    This seems to inappropriately shift the argument from Determinism and Free Will to an argument of Determinism and Moral Responsibility. Moral responsibility tends to be based on freedom of will, so saying there is moral responsibility irrespective of freedom of will seems to be strange.

  • @SheikhMuneebUrRehman-q4b
    @SheikhMuneebUrRehman-q4b 4 місяці тому

    sir can we get the notes after lecture

  • @jaimiejin7992
    @jaimiejin7992 4 місяці тому

    Sir I want to thank you for making these videos. It's really helpful to me as my church small group is discussing book 2 of Mere Christianity now. Your book review is very concise. This is like a crash course on Mere Christianity. God bless you and I am very grateful for your work!

  • @secular7027
    @secular7027 4 місяці тому

    The statement "objective truth and falsity doesn't exist" is relatively true, not objectively or absolutely true. Challenge met. It must be meaningful, of course: As a social constructivist/constructive relativist, they can hold to the correspondence theory, so for something to be true is for it to correspond to reality. But since the facts themselves are made by us, the facts are also relative. Another challenge met. It cannot be objectively true. A relativist or anti-realist about truth isn't going to say that anything is objectively or absolutely true. Challenge met. As Alasdair Mcintrye said:.......**Relativism** like skepticism , is one of those doctrines that have by now been refuted a number of times too often.Nothing is perhaps a surer sign that a doctrine embodies some not to be neglected truth that than in the course of history of philosophy it should have been refuted again and again.Genuinely refutable doctrines only need to be refuted once.

  • @secular7027
    @secular7027 4 місяці тому

    A few points to be made here since I am a relativist and hold to a form of anti-realism where I take it that all objects, properties, facts-everything-is constructed by us. This is a form of social constructivism and anti-realism that I hold to. I also call it constructive relativism. So, about the past and the mountain existing before we did-that can be true under a constructive relativist framework too, given that the past is constructed. I can make things even when I am not there, i.e., that we can make things that exist before we existed, given the past is constructed. So the mere fact that things existed before us does not entail that these things are unconstructed. A constructive relativist isn't going to say that the past is unconstructed, so that does not rule out anti-realism.

  • @SH-bl9wh
    @SH-bl9wh 4 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for making this available in English. This is rare

  • @noahcole6856
    @noahcole6856 4 місяці тому

    Bible?

  • @joecampbell2365
    @joecampbell2365 5 місяців тому

    Two distinct claims: 1/ I am able to do something that strictly implies the door is unlocked. 2/ I am able to unlock the door. The door is locked. I cannot unlock the door. Yet if my friend unlocks the door, I am able to leave the room.

  • @jofinsky8400
    @jofinsky8400 5 місяців тому

    Point 1 is not a coherent sentence.

  • @naserrahman1877
    @naserrahman1877 5 місяців тому

    1:05

  • @carolinenjeri9212
    @carolinenjeri9212 5 місяців тому

    Thank you from kenya.

  • @TheOrdener
    @TheOrdener 5 місяців тому

    Your criterion for doubting Clifford’s thesis is that many people disagree with it? Really?

  • @becka4121
    @becka4121 5 місяців тому

    what kind of nihilism is this supposed to be? i thought philosophical nihilism was that nothing matters and all that exists is material

    • @GordonPettit
      @GordonPettit 5 місяців тому

      This is not moral nihilism, but metaphysical nihilism. The idea that strictly speaking, nothing exists.

  • @Maatiu.TIoane
    @Maatiu.TIoane 5 місяців тому

    Amen

  • @benjaminkpamgma9611
    @benjaminkpamgma9611 6 місяців тому

    Very good explanation of the topic. Thank you

  • @dirtypapist
    @dirtypapist 6 місяців тому

    Great content, but the hand that is writing the concepts on the screen is a little distracting.

  • @sehkhojangchangsan4835
    @sehkhojangchangsan4835 6 місяців тому

    ❤🙏❤🙏😂🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏💖

  • @JohnChrysostom101
    @JohnChrysostom101 6 місяців тому

    No, lying is just wrong universally the same as cold blooded murder or theft is always wrong, i can't believe people swallow these self serving lies.

  • @Etrix664
    @Etrix664 7 місяців тому

    Great week, especially with page numbers👍👍👍

  • @Musix4me-Clarinet
    @Musix4me-Clarinet 7 місяців тому

    It is telling that this person (PvI) starts with dismissing outright a very real possibility: The universe is like this because it happened this way. In an infinite set of time, which is possible since we cannot prove this universe does NOT exist in an infinite state outside of itself, it is possible that this universe came into being and coagulated in a way as to make it like we see in this moment of infinity. Just because you are _finite_, does that imply everything that is not you must also be finite? Just because our universe appears finite, does that mean everything that could exist not within our view of this universe must also be finite? There is rational explanation that considers the universe to be cyclical wherein it expands and then collapses and starts over. Repeat that infinitely, you could have an instance where our universe is created. It is reasonable.

  • @blackmatterfilm
    @blackmatterfilm 7 місяців тому

    I am a atheist finding myself missing something in life. I am 40 years old never thought I be really spending this much time understanding clearly what I been running a away. Thank you making videos sharing your knowledge.

  • @jnm4462
    @jnm4462 7 місяців тому

    Good stuff! When you say that the universe cannot have a causal explanation, do you mean physical? It seems like God is a perfectly plausible causal explanation,

    • @dmitryalexandersamoilov
      @dmitryalexandersamoilov 4 місяці тому

      There are 4 types of causation. 1) what something is made of 2) how something works 3) the timeline of events 4) the end-goal of the thing You can't have a goal without having a history. You can't have a history without having a way things work. You can't have things working a certain way if you don't have anything that they're made of. That's why God doesn't work as an explanation. You're trying to say what happened in history when there was no history, there was just a way things work. Here's a better answer: Existence is made of possiblity. Possibility works by being organized by simplicity. Our laws of physics are one possible universe. Our possible universe seems like the only actual universe because it's the only one we can see.

  • @Stinky97000
    @Stinky97000 7 місяців тому

    You can't compute the likelihood of the universe existing. You have no clue as to how possible it actually is.

  • @kopp1948
    @kopp1948 8 місяців тому

    Reward and punishment can be useful for conditioning, essential for socialization, whether the subject is "ultimately" responsible or not.

  • @yakinimoseley6792
    @yakinimoseley6792 8 місяців тому

    What is a good reference for your presentation?

  • @RomanBello-pc2jm
    @RomanBello-pc2jm 8 місяців тому

    Thanks for this, it's helping w my college class

  • @bruhfella1257
    @bruhfella1257 8 місяців тому

    17:40 I very much agree with your approach. Maybe only one possible outcome is required for Moral Responsibility but I think it’s very intuitive that more than one available path to reach that outcome is necessary for Moral Responsibility.

  • @kyleroderick2334
    @kyleroderick2334 9 місяців тому

    It does not seem self-evident to me that the present surface content of our own minds are more reliably known than external objects. In fact, it is by these external objects that we confirm that our senses are reliable. If our minds had no external objects to perceive, we would never develop surface thoughts at all. If you were born as a brain in a vat for example, having grown up as a brain in a vat, not in a mother's womb, I suppose you wouldn't have any thoughts at all, or if you did they would be very much unrecognizable to us. You bring up the example of pain. If I were to experience the pain of breaking my leg but I happened to be dreaming, my brain might send pain signals identical to the signals it would send if I had actually broken my leg. Upon waking and reviewing my leg, any residual pain from the dream would quickly subside, having been corrected by external objects.

  • @ahmedbellankas2549
    @ahmedbellankas2549 9 місяців тому

    What does determination mean ?

    • @GordonPettit
      @GordonPettit 9 місяців тому

      Determinism: for any given state of affairs, there is just one physically possible future