The Importance of Avoiding Epiphenomenalism

"I think epiphenomenalism is about as self evidently false as any position in philosophy could possibly be because it's absurd," he says. "If you're a naturalist- You've used a lot of words that I like tonight in Super Bowl is another word that I really like, isn't it? But the naturalist should put out a dictionary." He goes on to explain why suffering an evil has no causal or functional influence whatsoever.

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