About Aron Wall
I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I read Great Books at St. John's College (Santa Fe), got my physics Ph.D. from U Maryland, and did my postdocs at UC Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Stanford. The views expressed on this blog are my own, and should not be attributed to any of these fine institutions.
In my previous posts about the Carroll-Craig debate, I've been skirting around the edges of an important claim by Carroll which summarizes the main reason he doesn't buy the Cosmological Argument. That's because I was focusing on the question of … Continue reading →
Here they are: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ http://letterstonature.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/sorry-aristotle-and-aquinas-but-i-still-dont-understand-formal-causes/ UPDATE: Also worth reading: http://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/rescuing-aristotle/
A reader writes in with the following questions concerning the Incarnation: 1. Since Jesus was a Jew (born of a Jewish mother, Mary), and Jesus Christ is one of the 3 persons of the Trinity, is God a Jew? But … Continue reading →
from http://www.xkcd.com/1352/. We have now come to the end of my series about whether or not the universe had a beginning. This is part of a longer series dissecting the debate between St. William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll. I … Continue reading →
Updated to ask readers more directly for their thoughts, if you have any... A random thought. Suppose we ask whether the world has a Beginning or an End, or whether it is eternal is one or both directions. It seems … Continue reading →