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Showing posts with label metaphysics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphysics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Two Sources of Interest in Metaphysical Modality (and Kripke in Light of Them)

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Source 1: We want to know the vocabulary and syntax of being, or as Rosen puts it in 'The Limits of Contingency', 'the combinato...
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Thursday, 4 October 2018

Notes on Modality II - "Deserving the name", the grandeur of the idea of metaphysical modality, &c.

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I want to explore a 'no clear best deserver' view of the - very inchoate - role that the distinction between (metaphysically) necess...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

The Resurgence of Metaphysics as a Notational Convenience

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Reading Jessica Wilson's interesting new SEP entry on Determinables and Determinates , the following speculation occurred to me: the oft...
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Saturday, 24 December 2016

What Are My Problems Now?

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This is a follow-up to What Was My Problem? . 1. The Basis of Puzzlement about Modality One line of investigation I would like to pursue...
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Monday, 14 November 2016

On Carnap's 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' - Towards a More Nuanced View

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Below are some notes on the first two sections Carnap's classic paper ' Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology '. (Carnap's ide...
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Monday, 1 June 2015

Forthcoming in Philosophia

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My paper 'A Problem for Hofweber's Ontological Project' is forthcoming in Philosophia . It grew out of this blog post . The f...
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Raisins at Dawn #1

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Topics this time include: logical space and Wittgenstein, method and semantic notions in philosophy, the idea of metaphysics, Lichtenberg on...
Monday, 19 August 2013

A Fallacy in Hofweber's Arguments in Ontology

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[This is a draft of a paper .] Hofweber's ontological project crucially involves inferring negative existential statements from state...
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Saturday, 20 April 2013

The Non-Indexical Core of Presentism is Monism

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In recent discussions about temporal ontology, there has been interest in the question of the prospects for a non-indexical, or externalist,...
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Monday, 13 August 2012

Changing the Past: An Examination of the Debate

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Draft paper from the first half of 2011 here . Coming soon: a post outlining recent developments in my account of subjunctive or metaph...
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Mind-Independence and Propositions

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I will try to say something about a profound confusion or blindness which occurs in connection with the notion of mind-independence. What I ...