Works by Andrew Newman

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The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication.Andrew Newman - 2002 - Cambridge University Press.

This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a realist view of universals. Part of the aim is to avoid Platonic propositions, and although sympathy with facts is maintained in the early chapters, the book argues that facts as real entities are not needed. It includes discussion (...)

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The Physical Basis of Predication.Andrew Newman - 1992 - Cambridge University Press.

In this book about metaphysics the author defends a realistic view of universals, characterizing the notion of universal by considering language and logic, the idea of possibility, hierarchies of universals, and causation. He argues that neither language nor logic is a reliable guide to the nature of reality and that basic universals are the fundamental type of universal and are central to causation. All assertions and predications about the natural world are ultimately founded on these basic universals. A distinction is (...)

Universals in Metaphysics

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On the Constitution of Solid Objects Out of Atoms.Andrew Newman - 2013 - The Monist 96 (1):149-171.

This paper solves the special composition question for solid objects and discusses the properties of wholes in relation to the properties of their parts, including emergent properties. By considering the causal properties of solid objects, this paper argues that it is possible for objects that are undoubtedly ontological units (called atoms) to combine to form a whole that is also an ontological unit of the same standing. It begins by considering the various different kinds of property that a whole object (...)

Abstract Objects in Metaphysics

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Converse Relations, Vectors, And Three Theses From Armstrong.Andrew Newman - 2002 - Metaphysica 3 (2).

The second thesis from Armstrong is that a relation and its converse are identical, so that the instantiation of the converse relation represents no increase in being. This is the identity thesis for converse relations. In the context of Armstrong’s notion of..

Ontology in Metaphysics

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Introduction.Andrew Newman - 2006 - In Barry Castro (ed.), Collected Papers of Barry Castro: 1968 to 2005. Business Ethics Center, Grand Valley State University.

My aim is to make some comments on the ontology of the correspondence theory of truth. First I shall give reasons for rejecting a Platonic view of propositions. This motivates locating propositions in the world. I then present a version of Russell’s theory of truth, which if it locates propositions anywhere locates them in the world. I consider some of the advantages of this theory, not least among being that it does not need facts as entities.

Business Ethics in Applied Ethics

Correspondence Theory of Truth in Philosophy of Language

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Two Grades of Internalism (Pass and Fail).Andrew E. Newman - 2005 - Philosophical Studies 122 (2):153-169.

Internalism about mental content holds that microphysical duplicates must be mental duplicates full-stop. Anyone particle-for-particle indiscernible from someone who believes that Aristotle was wise, for instance, must share that same belief. Externalism instead contends that many perfectly ordinary propositional attitudes can be had only in certain sorts of physical, sociolinguistic, or historical context. To have a belief about Aristotle, for instance, a person must have been causally impacted in the right way by Aristotle himself (e.g., by hearing about him, or (...)

Narrow Content in Philosophy of Mind

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Understanding Identity Statements.Andrew Newman - 1992 - Noûs 26 (2):275-277.

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The Material Basis of Predication and Other Concepts.Andrew Newman - 1988 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (3):331 – 347.

Immanent realism is a justly popular theory of universals which is incomplete. It is not good enough to say that all universals are equally real and all equally inhere in objects. Concepts come in hierarchies, For example: "colored," "red" and "claret," where "claret" is a shade of red. Only those at the very bottom of the hierarchy exist in objects, And are rightly called properties. Only properties have causality as a criterion of identity. Frege's functional account of concepts can be (...)

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Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference and Semantic Correspondence.Christopher Hill & Andrew Newman - 2004 - Philosophical Quarterly 54 (215):330-332.

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A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space.Andrew Newman - 1989 - Philosophical Quarterly 39 (155):200-220.

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German Philosophy in European Philosophy

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Epistemic Practices in Arts and Technology.Andrew Newman, Matthias Tarasiewicz & Sophie-Carolin Wagner - 2015 - Journal for Research Cultures 1 (1).

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In Defence of Real Composite Wholes August 2006 [email protected]Andrew Newman - manuscript

Newton’s laws of motion imply that any plurality of particles whatsoever considered as a whole obeys Newton’s laws. Nevertheless, I define a Newtonian composite object as an object for the purposes of Newtonian mechanics in which the atoms act in casual dependence on one another in such a way that the whole is structurally stable in many interactions. An elastic solid object is a type of a Newtonian composite object in which each atom is in stable spatial equilibrium relative to (...)

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In Defence of Real Composite Wholes.Andrew Newman - unknown

Newton ’s laws of motion imply that any plurality of particles whatsoever considered as a whole obeys Newton ’s laws. Nevertheless, I define a Newtonian composite object as an object for the purposes of Newtonian mechanics in which the atoms act in casual dependence on one another in such a way that the whole is structurally stable in many interactions. An elastic solid object is a type of a Newtonian composite object in which each atom is in stable spatial equilibrium (...)

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Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement. [REVIEW]Andrew Newman - 1995 - Noûs 29 (2):274.

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Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm Al-Din Mahmud Al-Nayrizi and His Writings by Reza Pourjavady, 2011. [REVIEW]Andrew Newman - 2011 - Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies 4:447-452.

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The Bundle Theory for Simple Particular.Andrew Newman - unknown

1 A particular may have other particulars as parts, but according to the bundle theory its ultimate constituents are confined to universals. Parts are different from constituents or components. A part is a type of constituent, but there are constituents that are not parts. Parts belong to the same general category as the whole: if a concrete particular has parts, those parts will themselves be concrete particulars. This is not always the case with constituents: the constituents of a fact do (...)

Bundle Theories in Metaphysics

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The Bundle Theory, the Principle of Unity for Elementary Particulars, and Some Issues.Andrew Newman - unknown

1 See for example, E. J. Lowe, The Possibility of Metaphysics, pp. 51-3, 210-220, and David Lewis, The Plurality of Worlds on the notion of concrete object. 2 The properties that are constituents of a particular should be intrinsic properties, though it need not be assumed that all its intrinsic properties are constituents. The notion of intrinsic property is easier if a sparse view (as opposed to an abundant view) of properties is assumed. A sparse view requires a criterion for (...)

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The Causal Relation and its Terms.Andrew Newman - 1988 - Mind 97 (388):529-550.

Varieties of Causation in Metaphysics

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The Good, the Bad, and the Irrational: Three Views of Mental Content.Andrew E. Newman - 2004 - Philosophical Psychology 17 (1):95-106.

Recent philosophy of psychology has seen the rise of so-called "dual-component" and "two-dimensional" theories of mental content as what I call a "Middle Way" between internalism (the view that contents of states like belief are "narrow") and externalism (the view that by and large, such contents are "wide"). On these Middle Way views, mental states are supposed to have two kinds of content: the "folk-psychological" kind, which we ordinarily talk about and which is wide; and some non-folk-psychological kind which is (...)

Two-Dimensionalism about Content in Philosophy of Mind

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The Origins of the Shi’A: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kufa by Najam Haider, 2011. [REVIEW]Andrew Newman - 2012 - Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies 5:195-200.

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The Rates of the Passing of Time, Presentism, and the Issue of Co-Existence in Special Relativity.Andrew Newman - 2021 - Foundations of Physics 51 (3):1-19.

By considering situations from the paradox of the twins in relativity, it is shown that time passes at different rates along different world lines, answering some well-known objections. The best explanation for the different rates is that time indeed passes. If time along a world line is something with a rate, and a variable rate, then it is difficult to see it as merely a unique, invariant, monotonic parameter without any further explanation of what it is. Although it could, conceivably, (...)

Presentism in Metaphysics

Special Relativity in Philosophy of Physical Science

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