About Aron Wall
I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I read Great Books at St. John's College (Santa Fe), got my physics Ph.D. from U Maryland, and did my postdocs at UC Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Stanford. The views expressed on this blog are my own, and should not be attributed to any of these fine institutions.
For the reasons just given, I think the main choice is between Naturalism and Monotheism (which I will sometimes call Theism for short). Before trying to decide between these two views, I think it is well worth emphasizing just how … Continue reading →
What are the possible candidates for the most fundamental principle of reality, which is to explain everything else? Well, what do we know about the reality which it is supposed to explain? One thing we know from the study of … Continue reading →
It is natural to suppose that these fundamental entities are in some sense necessary. I don't mean this term to imply that they can be rigorously proven from pure logic (logical/conceptual necessity) or even that we personally can be sure … Continue reading →
Some optimistic folks hope that Science will eventually explain everything about the world. But this hope seems absurd in light of the fact that explanations always involve presuppositions. The structure of explanation is always that we explain one thing A … Continue reading →
With sufficiently robust assumptions about how causation works, it is possible to formulate various Cosmological Arguments (there's more than one) in a strictly deductive way. But in our age there isn't enough of a consensus about how causation works, or … Continue reading →