Majesty of Reason | Persistence and Laws of Nature | Dr. David Builes @MajestyofReason | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Dr. David Builes and I chat about laws of nature, the metaphysics of persistence, existential inertia, and so much more.

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OUTLINE

0:00 Intro and overview
4:30 Key concepts
27:05 Laws of nature
39:22 Persistence
41:41 Monism + endurantism
1:23:40 Monism + perdurantism
1:31:50 Pluralism
1:36:00 Payoffs and conclusions

LINKS

(1) Builes and Teitel, “Lawful Persistence”: philpapers.org/archive/BUILP-2.pdf

(2) Builes’ website: davidbuiles.com

(3) My Springer book: (a) amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs/dp/3031193121 (b) link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2

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