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I don't know about 'common sense opinion' by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.

Peter van Inwagen

You certainly wouldn't want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

Peter van Inwagen

Peter van Inwagen

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)

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