Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We've debunked the old Kalam argument presented by William Lane Craig in other videos, see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME
youtube.com/watch?v=femxJFszbo8&t=1411s
But there is now a "new" Kalam based on Benardete paradoxes such as the Grim Reaper which are meant to establish something called causal finitism. What are these paradoxes ? and how can a critic of the Kalam respond?Well our very own Alex Malpass has teamed up with Joe Schmid of the Majesty of Reason and published a paper in one of the worlds leading philosophy journals Mind.
You can find that here
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
We talk about this paper and related issue and see why how to reply to this new Kalam.
A timeline is here:
00:00 introduction
2:40 Grim Reaper paradox
7:43 The Kalam argument
9:25 Causal Finitism
12:40 The UPD
23:05 The Problem with causal finitism
37:20 Physics
44:30 Mysterious Force
57:33 The Patchwork Principle
Joe's papers on this topic:
“Branching Actualism and Cosmological Arguments”, Philosophical Studies (2023, with Alex Malpass). Here we use branching actualism to criticize the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philpapers.org/rec/SCHBAA-22
“Benardete paradoxes, patchwork principles, and the infinite past”, Synthese (2024). Here I develop another problem for the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPP-3#:~:text=Benardete%20paradoxes%20involve%20a%20beginningless,impossibility%20of%20an%20infinite%20past.
“The End is Near: Grim Reapers and Endless Futures”, Mind (Forthcoming). Here I criticize the Grim Reaper Kalam by developing a symmetrical Kalam-style parody argument, based on a future-oriented Benardete paradox, for the impossibility of an endless future.
academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzad065/7492631?redirectedFrom=fulltext
“Grim Reaper Paradoxes and Patchwork Principles: Severing the Case for Finitism”, Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming, with Troy Dana). Here we develop two problems for the Grim Reaper Kalam. One is a companions in guilt argument based on a new finite Benardete-like paradox. Another relates to a mistaken assumption about the intrinsicality of the Reapers’ realized powers/dispositions.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHGRP-4
“Benardete Paradoxes, Causal Finitism, and the Unsatisfiable Pair Diagnosis”, Mind (Forthcoming, with Alex Malpass). Here we argue that the unsatisfiable pair diagnosis is the best solution to Benardete paradoxes, and in particular that it is much better than causal finitism. We also raise yet another challenge to the use of patchwork principles on behalf of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
We've now set up a facebook page here: facebook.com/groups/994473845741616/?ref=share_group_link&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=46MWMO2CqxFVvIiN&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fg%2F15rmAnMGZP%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr
We've debunked the old Kalam argument presented by William Lane Craig in other videos, see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME
youtube.com/watch?v=femxJFszbo8&t=1411s
But there is now a "new" Kalam based on Benardete paradoxes such as the Grim Reaper which are meant to establish something called causal finitism. What are these paradoxes ? and how can a critic of the Kalam respond?Well our very own Alex Malpass has teamed up with Joe Schmid of the Majesty of Reason and published a paper in one of the worlds leading philosophy journals Mind.
You can find that here
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
We talk about this paper and related issue and see why how to reply to this new Kalam.
A timeline is here:
00:00 introduction
2:40 Grim Reaper paradox
7:43 The Kalam argument
9:25 Causal Finitism
12:40 The UPD
23:05 The Problem with causal finitism
37:20 Physics
44:30 Mysterious Force
57:33 The Patchwork Principle
Joe's papers on this topic:
“Branching Actualism and Cosmological Arguments”, Philosophical Studies (2023, with Alex Malpass). Here we use branching actualism to criticize the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philpapers.org/rec/SCHBAA-22
“Benardete paradoxes, patchwork principles, and the infinite past”, Synthese (2024). Here I develop another problem for the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPP-3#:~:text=Benardete%20paradoxes%20involve%20a%20beginningless,impossibility%20of%20an%20infinite%20past.
“The End is Near: Grim Reapers and Endless Futures”, Mind (Forthcoming). Here I criticize the Grim Reaper Kalam by developing a symmetrical Kalam-style parody argument, based on a future-oriented Benardete paradox, for the impossibility of an endless future.
academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzad065/7492631?redirectedFrom=fulltext
“Grim Reaper Paradoxes and Patchwork Principles: Severing the Case for Finitism”, Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming, with Troy Dana). Here we develop two problems for the Grim Reaper Kalam. One is a companions in guilt argument based on a new finite Benardete-like paradox. Another relates to a mistaken assumption about the intrinsicality of the Reapers’ realized powers/dispositions.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHGRP-4
“Benardete Paradoxes, Causal Finitism, and the Unsatisfiable Pair Diagnosis”, Mind (Forthcoming, with Alex Malpass). Here we argue that the unsatisfiable pair diagnosis is the best solution to Benardete paradoxes, and in particular that it is much better than causal finitism. We also raise yet another challenge to the use of patchwork principles on behalf of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
We've now set up a facebook page here: facebook.com/groups/994473845741616/?ref=share_group_link&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=46MWMO2CqxFVvIiN&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fg%2F15rmAnMGZP%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr
