Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Peter van Inwagen

Born: September 21, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Peter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Research Professor of Philosophy at Duke University each Spring.
Known for:
- Material Beings (1990)
- An Essay on Free Will (1983)
- Ontology, Identity, and Modality (2001)