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Can’t Software Malfunction?

Metaphysics
Digital artifacts often fail to perform as expected. It has recently been argued that this should not be analyzed as software malfunctioning. Rather, every case that is not the result of hardware failures would be due to design errors.
Jeroen de Haas, Wybo Houkes
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The Realism of Taxonomic Pluralism

Metaphysics, 2020
In this paper, I present a critique of taxonomic pluralism, namely the view that there are multiple correct ways to classify entities into natural kinds within a given scientific domain. I argue that taxonomic pluralism, as an anti-essentialist position,
Ka Ho Lam
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Essences, Heuristics, and Metaphysical Illusions

Metaphysics
The paper is a critique of Kit Fine’s central argument in ‘Essence and Modality’ for the hyperintensionality of essence-attributing operators, from the premise that it is essential to Socrates that he is Socrates but not that he belongs to {Socrates ...
Timothy Williamson
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“Nothing in Nature Is Naturally a Statue”: William of Ockham on Artifacts

Metaphysics, 2018
Among medieval Aristotelians, William of Ockham defends a minimalist account of artifacts, assigning to statues and houses and beds a unity that is merely spatial or locational rather than metaphysical.
Jack Zupko
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On What (In General) Grounds What

Metaphysics, 2020
A generic grounding claim is a grounding claim that isn’t about any particular entity or fact. For example, consider the claim: an act is right in virtue of maximizing happiness.
Kevin Richardson
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Is There Backward Generation in the Institutional Realm?

Metaphysics
Over the last decade it has been pointed out by several philosophers that not all Status Function Declarations are synchronic: some such declarations are directed toward the absolute past.
Tobias Hansson Wahlberg
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Enmattered Virtues

Metaphysics, 2018
I argue that, for Aristotle, virtues of character like bravery and generosity are, like the emotions, properties that require a hylomorphic analysis.
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
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Self-Transforming Powers

Metaphysics
I investigate the hitherto unexplored hypothesis that powers may be ontically vague, and offer an account of what powers would be like in such a case.
Elisa Paganini
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The Hard Question for Hylomorphism

Metaphysics, 2018
The view that ordinary objects are composites of form and matter (“hylomorphism”) can be contrasted with the more common view that ordinary objects are composed of only material parts (“matter only”).
Dana Goswick
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Animal Locomotion in Aristotle: Self-Motion and the Tripartite Scheme

Metaphysics
In De Anima III 10, Aristotle proposes a notable tripartite scheme of animal self-locomotion. Though many note that the proximate source of the scheme is in Physics VIII 5 (Ferro 2022; Laks 2020; Polansky 2007; Rapp 2020a; Shields 2016), it is ...
William Nolan
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