Has Dretske Really Refuted Skepticism?

Dretske on Knowledge Closure

Dretske on Metaphysics and Freedom

In this paper, Fred Dretske’s component theory of action is evaluated. Dretske claims that in his theory reasons are parts or components of action. Thus, reasons do not cause actions because a part cannot cause the whole whose part it is. According to Dretske, this helps in eliminating a problem in compatibilism. Suppose reasons are causes of actions. Now, if X gives Y a reason from which she a...

Has Canadian contraceptive use really declined?

Has the UK really become iodine sufficient?

Maudlin’s Challenge Refuted: A Reply to Lewis

Lewis has recently argued that Maudlin’s contingent absorber experiment remains a significant problem for the Transactional Interpretation (TI). He argues that the only straightforward way to resolve the challenge is by describing the absorbers as offer waves, and asserts that this is a previously unnoticed aspect of the challenge for TI. This argument is refuted in two basic ways: (i) it is no...