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Why is there something instead of nothing?

How can one not believe in god as the root cause of the universe?

How to get started with philosophy without getting overwhelmed quickly?

Does a negative claimant have a burden of proof?

What did David Hume mean when he said that “reason is a slave to the passions”?

Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions

Why is scientism philosophically wrong?

Is atheism just another form of dogma?

Since words are defined in terms of other words in dictionaries, leading to infinite loops, does it mean natural languages are meaningless?

When is absence of evidence not evidence of absence?

What formal logical systems “resolve” the Liar Paradox?

Does the idea of being created imply the necessity for obedience to a creator?

Is Nothing actually imaginable?

How is Philosophy related to Science?

When it is correct to use Tarski's undefinability theorem versus Gödel's incompleteness theorem?

Is Logic Empirical?

Are all paradoxes reducible to one “fundamental” paradox?

Does Alvin Plantinga's account of epistemic warrant require belief in God?

What is the difference between knowledge and belief?

What is the philosophical ground for distinguishing logic and mathematics?

Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?

Was Wittgenstein anticipating Gödel?

What makes a basic belief a properly basic belief?

How is Saul Kripke said to have revive metaphysics again?

Why is the problem of universals a problem?

How does Gödel's incompleteness theorem apply to materialism and the mind

What is the symbolism of Piraeus in The Republic?

What does mathematical constructivism gain us philosophically?

Hilbert's Sixth Problem: Is Kolmogorov's solution the last word?

What is the difference between Philosophy and Theology?