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Moral property eliminativism [PDF]
, 2017 This paper argues that there is significant motivation for contemporary ethicists to affirm a view I call “moral property eliminativism.” On this eliminativist view, there are no moral properties, but there are moral truths that are made true by only ...
Byerly, T.R., T. Ryan Byerly
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Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Methodological Eliminativism about Things-in-Themselves [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2017 In his recent paper, “Things in Themselves: An Interim Report,” Robert Howell says that a philosophically satisfactory resolution of all-too-familiar problems about Kant’s views on the object of knowledge and the nature of things-in-themselves should ...
Hanna R.
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Debating Gender Eliminativism in Feminist Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2017 In this thesis, I give critical consideration to gender eliminativism, or the metaphysical view that gender (in a sense to be specified) is unreal and/or the normative view that gender (in a sense to be specified) ought to be purged from our social ...
Rodriguez LaBrada, Eloy F
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Avant, 2013 This paper discusses a number of basic strategies for modeling the mind in historical perspective. The best-known strategies are expansionism and eliminativism, which are both problematic: eliminativism compromises our self-understanding, while ...
Jan Sleutels
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Scientific Theory Eliminativism [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2013 The philosopher of science faces overwhelming disagreement in the literature on the definition, nature, structure, ontology, and content of scientific theories. These disagreements are at least partly responsible for disagreements in many of the debates in the discipline which put weight on the concept scientific theory. I argue that available theories
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Metaphysics, Natural Science and Theological Claims
TheoLogica, 2021 In this paper, I aim to discuss E. J. Lowe's view of the synergy between metaphysics and natural science. In doing so, I will extend Lowe’s synergistic model to develop a realist account of theological claims thereby responding to Byrne’s strong form of ...
Mihretu P. Guta
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Living fossils and conservation values
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) have been in decline in Long Island Sound, and recently there has been discussion of whether the state of Connecticut should stop issuing licenses for commercial harvesting. This paper argues that in spite of concerns
Derek Turner, Junhyung Han
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Color Eliminativism and Intuitions about Colors
Rivista di Estetica, 2010 The philosophical debate over the nature of color has been governed by what we have learnt from color vision science and what color phenomenology suggests to us. It is usually thought that color eliminativism, which maintains that physical objects do not
Valtteri Arstila
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Consciousness: Emergent and Real
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2015 In this paper, we propose three lines of argumentation against Nannini’s eliminativist approach towards consciousness and the Self. First, we argue that the premises he uses to argue for eliminativism can equally well be used to draw a completely ...
Reza Maleeh, Achim Stephan
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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