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Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
wiley   +1 more source

‘Logic Is Transcendental’: Content, Isomorphism and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Logic of Depiction

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to most readers of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's logic is empty or contentless, since it consists of tautologies that do not picture reality. This view, however, does not explain how and why Wittgenstein's ‘logic of depiction’ is transcendental (T, 4.015 and 6.13), especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through ...
Simone Nota
wiley   +1 more source

Wittgenstein On Moral Certainty

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moral certainty is a growing research area in philosophy with implications for current debates on hinge epistemology, moral change and deep moral disagreements. Despite several distinctive lines of disagreement, two assumptions are shared in the current discussion of moral certainty.
Cecilie Eriksen   +1 more
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The Absurdity of the Absurd: The Meta Narrative of Nothingness

open access: yesInternational Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 2016
openaire   +1 more source

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