If indeterminism is true, our actions are influenced by randomness and our will cannot be morally responsible for them.
If the agent's actions are random, she sometimes "would have agent-caused the crucial brain event and sometimes (in seventy percent of the replays, let us say) she would not have...
A consequence of this view is that everyday objects such as tables, chairs, cars, buildings, and clouds do not exist.
Like a swarm of bees, the particles we call a chair maintain a more or less stable arrangement for a while, which gives the impression of a single object.
Van Inwagen gave the 2003 Gifford Lectures; they are published in his The Problem of Evil.
Van Inwagen has shown an interest in the afterlife debate, particularly in relation to resurrection of the body.
In particular, Van Inwagen notes, this is a problem for the Christian materialist, one who believes that human beings are physical substances.
[5] He has delivered lectures including: In May 2011 it was announced that he is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.