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Mathematical fallacies, flaws, and flimflam

open access: yes, 2000
Barbeau, Edward 1938-
core  

The New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Defended

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joe Schmid and Troy Dana have recently advanced several criticisms of the New Hilbert's Hotel Argument formulated by us. In this paper, we respond by undercutting their proposed defeaters. First, we argue that they fail to refute the claim that Hilbert's Hotel entails a logical contradiction in the concrete world.
Eli Haitov, Andrew Loke
wiley   +1 more source

Is Having a Pain Having an Unshareable Particular?

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do I have something no one else can have when I am in pain? This puzzle about the so‐called ‘privacy of ownership’ of sensations is a special case of the problem of whether the states and qualities of a subject are particulars. (For if someone ‘has’ a pain, then that someone ‘is in’ a pain state and vice versa.) The debate addressing the ...
Bernhard Ritter
wiley   +1 more source

How Requests Create Reasons

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

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