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Aristotle on Artifactual Substances
Metaphysics, 2023 It is standardly held that Aristotle denies that artifacts are substances. There is no consensus on why this is so, and proposals include taking artifacts to lack autonomy, to be merely accidental unities, and to be impermanent.
Phil Corkum
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Metaphysics, 2023 In this paper, I examine two different kinds of production processes, mass production and collaborative production. While both production processes intuitively seem like collective actions, the established views about collective action fail to treat them
Chaeyoung Paek
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The Artifact Problem: A Category and Its Vicissitudes
Metaphysics, 2022 There is increasing interest in artifacts among philosophers. The leading edge is the metaphysics of artifacts and artifact kinds. However, an important question has been neglected. What is the ontological status of the category ‘artifact’ itself?
Beth Preston
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The Case Against Higher-Order Metaphysics
Metaphysics, 2022 Although higher-order metaphysics seems prima facie to be a promising new approach to metaphysics, it is nonetheless based on a mistake. This mistake is tied to a misuse of formal languages in metaphysics in general, not just to the use of higher-order ...
Thomas Hofweber
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Multifunctional Artefacts and Collocation
Metaphysics, 2022 There appear to be multifunctional artefacts of a type such that none of their functions can be attributed only to some proper part of the artefact. I use two examples of allegedly multifunctional artefacts of this kind in what follows, one due to Lynne ...
David-Hillel Ruben
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Presentism, Actualism, and Fatalism
Metaphysics, 2023 In recent papers, Philip Swenson (2016) has argued that presentism is incompatible with the conjunction of libertarianism and divine foreknowledge, and Michael Rea (2006) has argued that presentism is incompatible with the conjunction of libertarianism ...
Bradley Rettler
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A New Puzzle About Aristotelian Accidents
Metaphysics, 2021 I present a new puzzle that concerns Aristotle’s accidents. This puzzle arises when applying a basic requirement of accidentality to the variety of cases Aristotle provides.
Tyler Huismann
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Francisco Suárez on the Ontological Ground of Logical Possibility
Metaphysics, 2023 This article reassesses Suárez’s claim that real essences are intrinsically logically possible. (Henceforth, this claim is referred to as ‘ILP.’) Most scholars have understood ILP as asserting the independence of logical possibility from God’s power; on ...
Nicholas Westberg
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What are Sex and Gender and what Do We Want them to Be?
Metaphysics, 2023 We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others.
Ásta Ásta
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Aristotle’s Explanationist Epistemology of Essence
Metaphysics, 2019 Essentialists claim that at least some individuals or kinds have essences. This raises an important but little-discussed question: how do we come to know what the essence of something is? This paper examines Aristotle’s answer to this question.
Christopher Hauser
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