Arbiters of Truth and Existence
Arbiters of Truth and Existence is a scholarly work, published in 2024 in ''European Journal of Analytic Philosophy''. The main subjects of the publication include consciousness, ancient philosophy, epistemology, problem of evil, and computer science. The paper argues that such views have several implications: (1) the relation of arbiters to the authors' metaphysical commitments consists in indispensability, (2) realist views about a kind of entity should take the kinds of practices providing that entity’s arbiters to align with respect to their metaphysical dependencies, (3) if realists take a kind of practice to provide grounds on which to affirm the existence of a kind of entity, they should turn to those same grounds when seeking to provide an epistemology of the relevant domain..