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Determinism

Why It’s True, Why It Matters to You

[These posts are probably best read in chronological order. Scroll down or swipe up to see earlier entries.]

  • Indeterminism implies magic6 December 2025
  • Indeterminism is gappy5 December 2025
  • Determinism and choice23 November 2025
  • Public lecture17 November 2025
  • Book is on sale17 November 2025
  • Determinism and death4 October 2025
  • Sharp cutoffs must exist!23 September 2025
  • A tidbit from the news17 September 2025
  • Reality is a package deal5 September 2025
  • Being necessitated isn’t being forced31 August 2025
  • Source incompatibilism27 August 2025
  • Be careful with things!14 August 2025
  • Explaining the contingent universe13 August 2025
  • But I didn’t choose my beliefs and desires!11 August 2025
  • The “ability” to be a loose cannon8 August 2025
  • To have chosen otherwise5 August 2025
  • Revisiting regret4 August 2025
  • Answering two questions28 July 2025
  • Bottomless reality26 July 2025
  • Over to you!23 July 2025
  • No bypassing!13 July 2025
  • Deliberation under determinism12 July 2025
  • Free will isn’t magic3 July 2025
  • Could God guarantee intelligibility?22 June 2025
  • Why rationalism, you ask?17 June 2025
  • No way? No way!9 June 2025
  • Mechanism or magic7 June 2025
  • What’s the point of it all?3 June 2025
  • Ifonlyness26 May 2025
  • Contrastive explanation20 May 2025
  • Optimism and pessimism10 May 2025
  • Can determinists be trusted?7 May 2025
  • Determinism in pop culture: Episode 21 May 2025
  • Retrospective regret28 April 2025
  • Counterfactual ice cream20 April 2025
  • What a relief?14 April 2025
  • What is so bad about contradictions?7 April 2025
  • Corrections to my book ‒ updated1 April 2025
  • The network of necessitation30 March 2025
  • Three amazing facts and what they imply25 March 2025
  • Can counterfactuals be rescued?21 March 2025
  • It ain’t necessarily so18 March 2025
  • Metaphysical rationalism15 March 2025
  • Do our choices ever feel indeterministic?13 March 2025
  • Determinism misrepresented9 March 2025
  • I bet you’re a determinist!5 March 2025
  • Predictability and free will4 March 2025
  • Not perfectly predictable2 March 2025
  • Our infinite past28 February 2025
  • Necessitated, not fated26 February 2025
  • How to rewrite history25 February 2025
  • Taking counterfactuals seriously24 February 2025
  • The endless ramifications of change23 February 2025
  • An ounce of prevention22 February 2025
  • Determinism and physics: Bohmian mechanics21 February 2025
  • Determinism in pop culture: Episode 120 February 2025
  • No magic20 February 2025
  • Why don’t my actions feel pre-determined?19 February 2025
  • Determinism makes a difference!18 February 2025
  • What is determinism?17 February 2025