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Metaphysics, 2021 It has been widely argued that words are analogous to species such that words, like species, are natural kinds. In this paper, I consider the metaphysics of word-kinds.
J. T. M. Miller
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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, 2020 According to the simple modal account of essence, an object has a property essentially just in case it has it in every world in which it exists. As many have observed, the simple modal account is implausible for a number of reasons.
Michael De
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Metaphysics, 2020 In 'Necessary Beings', Bob Hale addresses two questions: What is the source of necessity? What is the source of our knowledge of it? He offers novel responses to them in terms of the metaphysical notion of 'nature' or, more familiarly, 'essence'. In this
Albert Casullo
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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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