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Forms as Simple and Individual Grounds of Things’ Natures

Metaphysics, 2018
To understand Aristotle’s conception of form, we have to see clearly the relationship between his account and Plato’s Theory of Forms. I offer a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s Moderate Realism, in which forms are simple particulars that ground the ...
Robert C. Koons
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Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Gingerich PD, Amane A, Zouhri S.
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Aristotle’s Plural Power Problem

Metaphysics
While Aristotle counts many things as members of the category of substances that seem intuitively to be substances, one wonders whether Aristotle is right not to include social entities like families, city-states, or mobs, in any of his explications of ...
Joel Cox
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Multidimensional Properties: Primitivism vs Reductionism

Metaphysics
The focus of this paper is on the metaphysical nature of multidimensional properties, properties like virtue, beauty, or health which can be had in different ways and to different degrees.
Robert Michels
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Essence and Ordinary Modality

Metaphysics
Fine’s “Essence and Modality” has prompted a revival of Aristotelian approaches to metaphysical modality. But what does it have to say about more ordinary modal facts: that this car can doo 100 mph, while that one can’t; that I must sneeze now; or that a
Barbara Vetter
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Reply to Barbara Vetter

Metaphysics
I follow Vetter in considering how the special modalities, such as metaphysical and nomological necessity, might be related to the ordinary expression of modal claims.
Kit Fine
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Reply to Gideon Rosen’s ‘The Modal Status of Generative Principles’

Metaphysics
Reply to Gideon Rosen’s paper.
Kit Fine
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Reply to Timothy Williamson

Metaphysics
Timothy Williamson’s is a fascinating and challenging paper and I am afraid that in my short response I cannot do full justice to much of what he says. What I would like to do is to deal with four central issues raised by his paper.
Kit Fine
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The Modal Status of Generative Principles

Metaphysics
This contribution to a symposium marking the 30th anniversary of Kit Fine’s “Essence and Modality” raises a general question for essentialist theories of modality: What sort of proposition can figure in the essence of a property? Several versions of Fine’
Gideon Rosen
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Varieties of Social Necessity

Metaphysics
Some have argued that certain claims about the natural world, e.g., the laws of nature, are not metaphysically necessary, but they are necessary in some more restricted, natural sense.
Theodore D. Locke
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