Consciousness Is What Makes The Mind-body Problem

Perhaps The Belief In God Is The Belief That The Universe Is Intelligible, But Not To Us.

Common Sense Doesn't Have The Last Word In Ethics Or Anywhere Else, But It Has, As J. L. Austin Said About Ordinary Language, The First Word: It Should Be Examined Before It Is Discarded.

It Is Prima Facie Highly Implausible That Life As We Know It Is The Result Of A Sequence Of Physical Accidents Together With The Mechanism Of Natural Selection.

I Want Atheism To Be True And Am Made Uneasy By The Fact That Some Of The Most Intelligent And Well-informed People I Know Are Religious Believers. It Isn't Just That I Don't Believe In God And, Naturally, I Hope That I'm Right In My Belief. It's That I Hope There Is No God! I Don't Want There To Be A God; I Don't Want The Universe To Be Like That.

Any Reductionist Program Has To Be Based On An Analysis Of What Is To Be Reduced. If The Analysis Leaves Something Out, The Problem Will Be Falsely Posed.