Joe Campbell

Interests include baseball, film, music, politics, religion, and philosophy, especially Hume and free will.

Working toward Philosophy 2.0

[Joe Campbell @PhilosopherJoeC]

An inconsistent triad.

1. It is bad to give a philosophy exam asking questions like "Is there free will?," "Is the soul immaterial?," "Is anything supernatural?"

2. Saying metaphysics matters to providence is like God giving a bad philosophy exam.

3. God is a good philosopher.

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@JoshuaLWatson They now have medication for this.

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@Dispointvet @BBGreatMoments This is the only story that makes any sense. He must have known he lacked elite baseball skills, and who gains elite skills they never had at that age?

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@hookskat @DrFrankTurek In a world where individual politics is largely in vain, this has implications for Christians.

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@OleTimeHardball Is cocaine considered a performance enhancing drug?

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@hookskat @DrFrankTurek There is "the religious getting involved in politics" and there is "using religion to secure political aims."

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@JoshuaLWatson Ok that seems a proof in both senses. There are no proofs of existential judgments is a version of the problem with induction since not-exist = all-not

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@iamAtheistGirl What is the point of fear when you’re in hell?

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@JoshuaLWatson That’s right. But someone can always say, You call that a proof?

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@hookskat Or a disaster that is happening as we speak.

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@JoshuaLWatson What could being "close" to an idealist amount to? I mean, how many idealists can you fit in a room?

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@AuerbachBo68067 Poets change the meanings of words all the time. Philosophical concepts - even God - are difficult to pin down,

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A man on the left is thinking. You ask him what he is thinking about and he says "God."

Another man is thinking. You ask him what he is thinking about and he says the Universe: everything that is the case.

What is the difference between their thoughts?

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@AuerbachBo68067 I admit this has nothing to do with my relationship with God. But I wouldn't say I know that God exists, or that I know things about him.

I have faith which makes knowledge redundant. What matters is my relationship with God. See Pascal. Why confuse faith with knowledge?

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@JoshuaLWatson Whenever irony escapes a philosopher, an angel loses her wings.

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@AuerbachBo68067 This makes it seem like GOD - the concept, not the Being - is Platonic, meaning, the same concept for all. Knowledge of God is grasping the concept GOD.

That makes it difficult to explain difference of opinion among intelligent people, including disagreements about the best Way.

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@OptimismOrDeath The old days

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Working in philosophy, I often forget that philosophical concepts play an important role in our lives.

An example:

For some Christians, free will MUST oppose determinism. That is an important part, essential to their story.

No set of arguments alone will dislodge that view.

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@iamAtheistGirl Isn’t that a quote from The Exorcist?

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@maggiewestrum @larsleafblad @mhenderson33 Tell them to call me. I haven't made a profit in years.

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@JoshuaLWatson Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

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@JohnAndersn3c8 He would have to be here now.