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Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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Kripke

, 2011
This chapter examines Saul Kripke's mathematically rigorous, paradox-free treatment of truth for certain formal languages. Kripke adds hints about how his formal construction might model some features of natural language, but his hints steer a path ...
Alexis G. Burgess, John P. Burgess
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On the Definability Problem of First-Order Sentences by Propositional Intuitionistic Formulas

Axioms
We consider restricted forms of the algorithmic problem of definability of first-order sentences by propositional formulas with intuitionistic Kripke frames semantics.
Grigor Kolev, Tinko Tinchev
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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Nomes próprios e identidade em Frege e Kripke

Inquietude, 2020
Neste artigo, apresento as formulações e respostas ao problema da identidade entre nomes desenvolvidas por Gottlob Frege e Saul Kripke. O problema da identidade entre nomes próprios ocorre em sentenças de identidade que envolvem dois nomes próprios ...
Francisco Rafael da Silva Gomes
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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano, Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio   +2 more
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Flexible Counterparts

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Kripkeański Wittgenstein, faktualizm i znaczenie

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2015
The paper provides a detailed discussion of George Wilson’s factualist interpretation of Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language and presents a new non-factualist interpretation.
Adam Łukasik, Alexander Miller
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Food fight: What the debate about food security means at the WTO

Canadian Food Studies, 2015
Although still experiencing significant levels of hunger and malnutrition, India has recently taken historic measures to improve food security, namely through the expansion of domestic food assistance programs.
Gawain Kripke
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