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C-131 TRIUNFAN POLITÉCNICOS EN INFOMATRIX 2014, EN RUMANIA

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C-131 TRIUNFAN POLITÉCNICOS EN INFOMATRIX 2014, EN RUMANIAC-131 TRIUNFAN POLITÉCNICOS EN INFOMATRIX 2014, EN ...
Coordinación de Comunicación Social, Imágenes
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Realism and Instrumentalism in Philosophical Explanation

Metaphysics, 2019
There is a salient contrast in how theoretical representations are regarded. Some are regarded as revealing the nature of what they represent, as in familiar cases of theoretical identification in physical chemistry where water is represented as hydrogen
Ori Simchen
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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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The Social Reality of Virtual Worlds

Metaphysics
What is the ontological status of virtual worlds? The two prominent positions in the recent debate are David Chalmers’s virtual digitalism and Neil McDonnell and Nathan Wildman’s virtual fictionalism. In this paper, I argue that there are good reasons to
Robert Fraser
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists

Metaphysics, 2020
I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function ...
Theodore Locke
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The Essences of Fundamental Properties

Metaphysics, 2019
There is a puzzle concerning the essences of fundamental entities that arises from considerations about essence, on one hand, and fundamentality, on the other.
Jennifer Wang
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The Status of Souls as 'Hupokeimena' in Aristotle

Metaphysics
Many scholars have claimed that a well-known, allegedly ‘Rylean’ passage in DA I.4 shows that Aristotle does not think souls are subjects of mental states and activities. However, other scholars have argued against this and invoked other texts to support
Christopher Hauser
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Aristotle’s Hylomorphism: The Causal-Explanatory Model

Metaphysics, 2018
There are several innocuous or trivial ways in which to explicate Aristotle’s hylomorphism. For example: objects (or kinds of object) are characterisable in terms of matter and form; or analysable into matter and form; or understood on the basis of ...
Michail Peramatzis
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