Metaphysics

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    Thinking about Stories.Sam Lebens & Tatjana von Solodkoff - forthcoming - Routledge.
    Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix. Written by philosophers Samuel Lebens and Tatjana von Solodkoff, it engages with fundamental questions about fiction, like: What is it? What does it give us? Does a story need a narrator? And why do sad stories make us cry if we know they aren’t real? The format of the book (...)
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    Carnapian Frameworks Revisited.Matti Eklund - forthcoming - Acta Philosophica Fennica.
    In his recent article "Carnapian Frameworks" (Synthese, 2021), Gabriel Broughton criticizes my discussions of Carnap on ontology and puts forward his own interpretation of what Carnap’s external/internal distinction amounts to. I here first argue that Broughton’s main claims about me are based on a misinterpretation. Then I turn to some issues of broader interest. I argue that Broughton’s own, potentially interesting interpretation of Carnap’s external/internal distinction does not work. And in light of Broughton’s discussion I present a sharpened version of (...)
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    An inexplicably good argument for causal finitism.Ibrahim Dagher - forthcoming - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion:1-13.
    Causal finitism, the view that the causal history of any event must be finite, has garnered much philosophical interest recently—especially because of its applicability to the Kalām cosmological argument. The most prominent argument for causal finitism is the Grim Reaper argument, which attempts to show that, if infinite causal histories are possible, then other paradoxical states of affairs must also be possible. However, this style of argument has been criticized on the grounds of (i) relying on controversial modal principles, and (...)
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    Narrative Identity and Recognition Deficiency.R. Maxwell Racine - forthcoming - British Journal of Aesthetics.
    Paul Ricœur says that our narrative identity depends on how others understand us. This claim, however, does not explicitly address the fact that not everyone receives the same recognition: it underexplains how certain groups are systemically not acknowledged, respected, or taken seriously. More recent work on narrative co-authoring starts to address this fact by examining how people’s vulnerability to co-authoring depends on the context in which they live. But I argue that this work should be extended to attend to the (...)
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    William Whewell, Cluster Theorist of Kinds.Zina B. Ward - forthcoming - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
    A dominant strand of philosophical thought holds that natural kinds are clusters of objects with shared properties. Cluster theories of natural kinds are often taken to be a late twentieth-century development, prompted by dissatisfaction with essentialism in philosophy of biology. I will argue here, however, that a cluster theory of kinds had actually been formulated by William Whewell (1794-1866) more than a century earlier. Cluster theories of kinds can be characterized in terms of three central commitments, all of which are (...)
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    Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups.Tobias Hansson Wahlberg - forthcoming - Erkenntnis:1-18.
    I outline a deflationary truthmakers account of social groups. Potentially, the approach allows us to say, with traditional ontological individualists, that there are only pluralities of individuals out there, ontologically speaking, but that there are nevertheless colloquial and social-scientific truths about social groups. If tenable, this kind of theory has the virtue of being both ontologically parsimonious and compatible with ordinary and social-scientific discourse—a virtue which the stock reductive / ontological dependence accounts of social groups arguably lack.
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    Talking Truly about Fictional Characters - Without Fictional Characters.Tatjana von Solodkoff - forthcoming - In Synthese Library Book Series. The University of Chicago Press.
    This paper delves into Jody Azzouni's ideas on the ontology of fictional characters. Azzouni interestingly maintains that even though fictional characters like Hermione Granger, Sherlock Holmes, and Mickey Mouse do not exist in reality, assertions about them can still be true. However, Azzouni dismisses the necessity of these characters to be ontologically real to validate the truth of sentences concerning them. Instead, Azzouni proposes that truth in speech and thought corresponds with the world, but not necessarily by attributing properties and (...)
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    A hyperintensional approach to positive epistemic possibility.Niccolò Rossi & Aybüke Özgün - forthcoming - Synthese.
    The received view says that possibility is the dual of necessity: a proposition is (metaphysically, logically, epistemically etc.) possible iff it is not the case that its negation is (metaphysically, logically, epistemically etc., respectively) necessary. This reading is usually taken for granted by modal logicians and indeed seems plausible when dealing with logical or metaphysical possibility. But what about epistemic possibility? We argue that the dual definition of epistemic possibility in terms of epistemic necessity generates tension \textit{when reasoning about non-idealized (...)
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    Three Logico-Ontological Notions and Mereology.Uwe Meixner - 2013 - In Christer Svennerlind, Almäng Jan & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investigations: Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday. Ontos Verlag. pp. 439-447.
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    The Trope Bundle Theory of Substance: Change, Individuation and Individual Essence.Márta Ujvári - 2012 - De Gruyter.
    This book supports a version of the trope-bundle view of individual substances matching also with a coherent account of change, individuation and individual essences. In particular, it is argued that qualitative individuation and qualitative individual essences can be tackled within the frames of a trope account. The adoption of a trope BT together with the individuation of tropes via the bearer substance might create the feeling of circularity since tropes and substances seem mutually to individuate each other. The novel solution (...)
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    Hoi ammoi tou chronou.Giōrgos N. Balanos - 1977
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    Sugyat ha-yesh.Abraham Zvie Bar-On - 1977
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    Problémy kauzální metody a historického výkladu pojmů.Jaromír Bartoš - 1977 - Praha: Academia.
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    How to Ground Powers.David Builes - forthcoming - Analysis.
    According to the grounding theory of powers, fundamental physical properties should be thought of as qualities that ground dispositions. Although this view has recently been defended by many different philosophers, there is no consensus for how the view should be developed within a broader metaphysics of properties. Recently, Tugby has argued that the view should be developed in the context of a Platonic theory of properties, where properties are abstract universals. I will argue that the view should not be developed (...)
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    John Buridan on the Eucharist.Boaz Faraday Schuman - forthcoming - In The Metaphysics and Theology of the Eucharist. Dordrecht: Springer.
    It may come as a surprise to readers familiar with the life and work of the Arts Master that he discusses the Eucharist at all. As he likes to remind us, theological topics are generally out of his wheelhouse. Even so, in his Questions on the “Metaphysics” of Aristotle (QM) 4.6, Buridan takes the sacrament of the Eucharist as a key data point in his discussion of Aristotle’s Categories. In the Eucharist, the accidents of the bread and wine—their color, texture, (...)
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    Deferred Ostension of Extinct and Fictive Kinds.Chad Engelland - 2023 - Review of Metaphysics 87:507-540.
    This paper addresses two problems concerning the deferred ostension of extinct and fictive kinds. First, the sampled item, the fossil or the depiction, is not a sample of the referent. Nonetheless, the retained characteristic shape, understood via analogy with living creatures, enables the reference to be fixed. Second, though both extinct and fictive kinds are targets of deferred ostension, there is an important difference in the sample. Fossilization is a natural causal process that makes fossils to be reflections of their (...)
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    Razvitie materii kak zakonomernyĭ prot︠s︡ess: mezhvuzovskiĭ sbornik nauchnykh trudov.V. V. Orlov (ed.) - 1978 - Permʹ: Permskiĭ gos. universitet im. A.M. Gorʹkogo.
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    Aru no kenkyū.Kimiyoshi Okazaki - 1978
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    La dialettica materialistica della storia: avvio allo studio.Luciano Gruppi - 1978 - Roma: Editori riuniti.
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    ʻIlal-i girāyish bih māddīgarī: bih z̤amīmah-ʼi Mātiriyālīsm dar Īrān.Murtaz̤á Muṭahharī - 1978 - Tihrān: Intishārāt-i Ḥikmat.
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    Aru no kōzō.Kimiyoshi Okazaki - 1978
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    Lighed og identitet.Willy Ørskov - 1978 - [København]: [Borgen].
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    Hipoteza w filozofii bytu.Józef Herbut - 1978 - Lublin: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski.
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    Logik des Plans.Hans Imhoff - 1978 - Frankfurt/M.: Euphorion-Verlag.
    Bd. 1, Buch 1. Kategorien des spekulativen Materialismus.
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    Filosofskie aspekty problemy vremeni: sbornik nauchnykh trudov.Boris Andreevich Erunov (ed.) - 1978 - Leningrad: Leningradskiĭ gos. pedagog. in-t im. A. I. Gert︠s︡ena.
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    De l'existence à l'existant.Emmanuel Lévinas - 1978 - Paris: J. Vrin.
    Une negation qui se voudrait absolue, mais niant tout existant -jusqu'a l'existant qu'est la pensee effectuant cette negation meme-ne saurait mettre fin a la scene toujours ouverte de l'etre, de l'etre au sens verbal: etre anonyme qu'aucun etant ne revendique, etre sans etants ou sans etres, incessant remue-menage, pour reprendre une metaphore de Blanchot, il y a impersonnel, comme un il pleut ou un il fait nuit. Terme foncierement distinct du es gibt heideggerien. Il n'a jamais ete ni la traduction, (...)
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    Zagadnienie psychofizyczne.Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - 1978 - Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk.. Edited by Bohdan Michalski.
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    Dorovinė asmenybės saviraiška.Vincentas Žemaitis (ed.) - 1978 - Vilnius: Mintis.
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    Essere e progetto nella dialettica dell'esistenza.Sergio Caterini - 1978 - Roma: L. Lucarini.
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    The Science and Religion Forum Discuss Information and Reality: Questions for Religions and Science.Finley I. Lawson - forthcoming - Zygon.
    The Science and Religion Forum (SRF) promotes discussion on issues at the interface of science and religion. The forum membership is diverse and it holds an annual conference to encourage exploration of issues that arise at the interface of science and religion. This article provides an overview of the hybrid conference that took place at the Woodbrooke Centre in Birmingham in May 2022. The conference addressed the issue of information and reality for religions and science across two broad themes. The (...)
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    Pantheism, Omnisubjectivity, and the Feeling of Temporal Passage.Andrei A. Buckareff - forthcoming - Religions.
    By “pantheism” I mean to pick out a model of God on which God is identical with the totality of existents constitutive of the universe. I assume that, on pantheism, God is an omnispatiotemporal mind who is identical with the universe. I assume that, given divine omnispatiotemporality, God knows everything that can be known in the universe. This includes having knowledge de se of the minds of every conscious creature. Hence, if God has knowledge de se of the minds of (...)
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    Theories of Causation.Anish Chakravarty - 2023 - In Metaphysics. Delhi: IGNOU egyankosh.
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    Eternity, and not Emptiness.Reshma Arora - 2023 - Influence of Truth.
    'Eternity' exists , since it is evidenced that: Pneuma breath spirit of a being is what Animates the Sentient being until end, and upon departing, it has to be Somewhere in Universe ; There are Manifestations of Indestructible ( Energy cannot be Destroyed) Spirit Pneuma breath Energy ( in Electromagnetism, biochem, electrons protons neutrons ions nucleus Molecular activity) in Natural, and it is Innate nature of it to Manifest (& it is Indestructible by nature) throughout Eternity. -/- Thus what is (...)
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    Compossibility and Co-possibility.Yual Chiek - 2016 - In Yual Chiek & Gregory Brown (eds.), Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. Springer. pp. 91-124.
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    Uploading: A philosophical analysis.David J. Chalmers - 2014 - In Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds. Wiley. pp. 102–117.
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    Leibniz on Plenitude, Relations, and 'The Reign of Law'.Jaakko Hintikka - 1980 - In Simo Knuuttila (ed.), Reforging the Great Chain of Being: Studies of the History of Modal Theories. Reidel.
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    Sociologia do materialismo: introdução à história da filosofia.Leôncio Basbaum - 1978 - São Paulo: Edições Símbolo.
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    Das Universalien-Problem.Wolfgang Stegmuller (ed.) - 1978 - Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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    Der wissenschaftstheoretische Realismus und die Autorität der Wissenschaften.Paul Feyerabend - 1978 - Braunschweig: F. Vieweg.
    Die Aufsätze in diesem Band befassen sich mit gewissen Aspekten der Rolle der Wissenschaften in unserer Kultur. Im ersten Teil wird gefragt, ob die Wissenschaft einen Beitrag zu unserem Weltbild leisten kann, oder ob sie einzig dazu taugt, Voraussagen zu machen oder Erfahrungen zu ordnen in einer Welt, deren Züge durch andere überlegungen bereits festgelegt sind. Im zweiten Teil wird gefragt, ob die Methoden und Ergebnisse der Wissen schaft wirklich die immense Autorität haben, die man ihnen heute zuschreibt. Die Antwort (...)
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    (Artificial) Intelligence.Ilexa Yardley - 2023 - Dallas, TX: Intelligent Design Center, Inc..
    Information and, thus, intelligence, is dependent on the Conservation of a Circle, which is, technically, the only dynamic in Nature. Forcing humans, now that it is exposed, to re-think, and, eventually, repurpose, the finance, technology, and psychology, humans use to create the 'personal' (and, often, artificial) experience called 'reality.'.
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    Aristotle “Unsung Hero” of Emergency? Psychological Hylomorphism and Supervenience Thesis.Giulia Mingucci - 2023 - Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 33:03314-03314.
    This paper addresses the contemporary thesis of psychophysical supervenience and its application to the interpretation of Aristotle’s psychological hylomorphism. It will be shown that the supervenience thesis, in its different versions, fails to explain the essential unity of the soul and of the psychophysical compound. Arguments will be provided on the basis of Aristotle’s discussion of the harmony theory of the soul (_de An_. I 4) and more generally on his methodological claims on the definition of the soul and of (...)
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    Korijeni pojmova oblika i tvari: začetci filozofije u praslavenskom mitu i hrvatskoj predaji [The roots of the concepts of form and matter: The beginnings of philosophy in the Proto-Slavic myth and in the Croatian tradition].Srećko Kovač - 2023 - In Medhótá śrávaḥ II: Misao i slovo. Zbornik u čast Mislava Ježića povodom sedamdesetoga rođendana. Zagreb: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti. pp. 339-355.
    The paper aims to show that by abstracting from a specific mythical historical- stylistic context and “ideation” of the notion of the Proto-Slavic deities Perun and Veles, especially in Croatian tradition, symbolic archetypes and abstract notions of form and primordial matter (materia prima) can be extracted from mythical content. We refer to mythical texts and contents according to the reconstructions and materials brought by Radoslav Katičić, and comparative analysis by Mislav Ježić. We distinguish form (1) as that in which identity (...)
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    Przeszłość, teraźniejszość, przyszłość: studium filozoficzne.Zdzisław Augustynek - 1979 - Warszawa: Państ. Wydaw. Naukowe.
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    Sigan non.Kyu-yŏng Kim - 1979 - Sŏul: Sŏgang Taehakkyo Chʻulpʻanbu.
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    Tiempo y temporalidad.José Molero Cruz - 1979 - [Córdoba: Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Córdoba].
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    Jikan to ningen.Satoshi Watanabe - 1979 - Edited by Watanabe, Dorotea & [From Old Catalog].
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    Psychoanalytische Selbstpsychologie und die Philosophie des Selbst.Herbert Stein - 1979 - Meisenheim am Glan: Hain.
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    Aneignung und Persönlichkeit: Studie über d. theoret.-methodolog. Bedeutung d. marxist.-leninist. Aneignungsauffassung für d. philos. Persönlichkeitstheorie.Werner Röhr - 1979 - Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
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    Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations: Aggregating and comparing results from mTurk, CloudResearch, Prolific, and undergraduate samples.Nick Byrd - manuscript
    How does reflective thinking impact decisions about ethics, mind, politics, or other philosophical domains? Reflective reasoning often correlates with better decision-making performance and certain philosophical preferences (e.g., utilitarian moral decisions). However, experiments suggest that reflection is not always the cause of these outcomes. Further, some evidence casts doubt on the trustworthiness of data from certain online crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). This paper reports results of a pre-registered experiment on participants from multiple sources (mTurk, CloudResearch, Prolific, (...)
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    Sobre la relación entre la responsabilidad moral y la identidad personal: Un argumento a favor de las teorías cuatridimensionalistas.Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera - forthcoming - Anuario Filosófico.
    La intuición de que uno sólo puede ser responsable de sus propios actos es extraordinariamente fuerte y parece establecer un vínculo entre la identidad personal y la responsabilidad moral. Las teorías neo-lockeanas de la identidad personal obtienen parte de su atractivo por su capacidad para dar cuenta de dicho vínculo. En este artículo analizo cómo el problema de la duplicación para las teorías neo-lockeanas afecta a su capacidad para dar cuenta del vínculo entre la identidad personal y la responsabilidad moral. (...)
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