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The Historicity of Artifacts: Use and Counter-Use

Metaphysics, 2022
Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s notion of ‘queer use,’ I present and extend a neo-Aristotelian theory of artifacts to capture what I call ‘counter-use.’ The theory of artifacts is based on the idea that what they are, how they come to be, and what their ...
Simon J. Evnine
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Nature and Teleology in the 'De Anima': Context for Aristotelian Potentiality

Metaphysics
This paper investigates contemporary applications of the Aristotelian conception of potentiality in limit cases of life and death arising from developments in modern science in order to argue that in its current usage, the term is often so far from its ...
Emma Emrich
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Acts and Embodiment

Metaphysics, 2022
The theory of embodiment is used in providing an account of the identity of acts and in providing solutions to various puzzles concerning acts.
Kit Fine
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Reply to Jon Erling Litland

Metaphysics
I consider an alternative to Litland’s proposal for defining the logical operations, one that does not require that a logical operation be defined by certain rules in addition to certain conditions.
Kit Fine
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Essentialist Plenitude and the Semantics of Proper Names

Metaphysics, 2019
A number of prominent metaphysicians have recently defended a set of ideas which I will call ‘essentialist plenitude.’ Very roughly, and to a first approximation, essentialist plenitude says that wherever there is an object with properties P1, …, P'n ...
Uriah Kriegel
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Three Ones and Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics'

Metaphysics, 2018
Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics' defends a number of theses about oneness ['to hen']. For interpreting the 'Metaphysics'’ positive henology, two such theses are especially important: (1) 'to hen' and being ['to on'] are equally general and so intimately ...
Adam Crager
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Definition and the Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Aristotle

Metaphysics, 2018
We have reason to think that a fundamental goal of natural science, on Aristotle’s view, is to discover the essence-specifying definitions of natural kinds—with biological species as perhaps the most obvious case.
Nathanael Stein
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Instantiation

Metaphysics, 2021
What is it, metaphysically, for a universal to be instantiated in a concrete particular? Philosophical controversy has been ongoing since the beginning of philosophy itself.
Anna Marmodoro
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Against Social Kind Anti-Realism

Metaphysics, 2020
The view that social kinds (e.g., money, migrant, marriage) are mind-dependent is a prominent one in the social ontology literature. However, in addition to the claim that social kinds are mind-dependent, it is often asserted that social kinds are not ...
Rebecca Mason
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Acts and Morals

Metaphysics, 2023
Smith shoots Jones intentionally but kills Jones unintentionally. How can a single act be both intentional and unintentional? Fine’s theory of embodiment construes the compatibility of intentional shooting with unintentional killing through a pluralist ...
Ori Simchen
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