On the alleged unfruitfulness of Russellian Monism

Logic and the Unknowability of God

A rigorous analysis of the paradoxes of apophatic theology, revealing its deep logical structure and challenging inconsistencies. In this book, Piotr Urbanczyk delves into the theory known as negative, or apophatic, theology where God is completely ineffable and unknowable. This doctrine, however, presents a paradox:...

The conceivability wars

One comparatively neglected response to David Chalmers’s zombie argumentappeals to the conceivability of so-called shombies—entities physically andbehaviourally indistinguishable from us that possess conscious experience justas we do—to reject dualism. In light of the resulting stalemate, the proponentsof this strategy...

Fundamentalist libertarianism and emergentist libertarianism

Revenge Russell‐Myhill and the Ramified Hierarchy

The Russell‐Myhill paradox targeting the structuralist view of proposition in classical higher‐order logic is blocked by implementing restrictions associated with an ordinary account of predicativity. However, it has been shown that these restrictions are not safe: “revenge” versions of the paradox show the inconsist...

No strong necessities from radically opaque concepts

Philip Goff raises an ingenious objection to David Chalmers’s (2009) two-dimensional zombie argument in his 2014 paper (co-authored by David Papineau) ‘What’s wrong with strong necessities?’ The objection aims to defeat the conceivability-possibility thesis by arguing that strong necessities, necessary truths that can...

Supervenience, reliability, and the explanatory limitations of conciliatory expressivism