Author: Keith Burgess-Jackson ABSTRACT Partial truth tables have two salient virtues. First, like whole truth tables, they are algorithmic (i.e., effective). If you construct them correctly, you will get an answer to your question whether a particular argument is valid; … Continue reading
Author: Adrian Heathcote ABSTRACT Whereas for many truths, truthmaker theory offers a plausible account, there are certain kinds of truths for which the theory seems less helpful: principally (though not exclusively) analytic truths. I argue that an augmentation of the … Continue reading
Author: Allen D. Allen ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to provide a few examples of how several branches of science have interesting and even profound implications for our understanding of death. The method will be to analyze some … Continue reading
Author(s) :Hermann G. W. Burchard ABSTRACT Origin of the Yellowstone hotspot & Columbia River Basalts has remained uncertain until now. Here, we present evidence of meteorite impact origin. The hotspot is shallow, only 200 km deep, invalidating a theory of … Continue reading
Author(s): Mohammad Reza Najjarian ABSTRACT Different religions have one belief in common in that man is not self-existent. It means that his life is basically dependent on an independent central power. This concept was suggested by early religions in the form … Continue reading
Author(s)： Randall S. Firestone ABSTRACT This paper proposes two thought experiments to demonstrate that our current treatment of animals is immoral. The first thought experiment involves aliens coming to earth and doing to us what we do to animals—eating us, … Continue reading
Author(s)： Bernard Korzeniewski ABSTRACT In physics, space-time is frequently treated as a congealed timeless block, in which there is no place for the unidirectional and irreversible flow (arrow) of time and the present. However, we receive the world subjectively as … Continue reading
Author(s)： Marilyn Walker ABSTRACT This paper reviews some recent work in the relationship between caring behavior among humans, an evolutionary adaptation necessary for survival of the species, and our moral sense of right and wrong. The investigation presents some of … Continue reading