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Holographic Reconstruction of Objects in a Mixed-Reality, Post-Truth Era: A Personal Essay
Arts, 2019 The ephemeral holographic image is an appropriate medium to express the nature of reality and illusion, an early interest I explored with trompe-l’œil painting.
Mary Harman
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs
Scientific Reports, 2021 Can the use of psychedelic drugs induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? While it is popularly believed that they can, this question has never been formally tested.
Christopher Timmermann +5 more
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Fatalism as a Metaphysical Thesis [PDF]
, 2016 Even though fatalism has been an intermittent topic of philosophy since Greek antiquity, this paper argues that fate ought to be of little concern to metaphysicians.
Ulrich, Meyer
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Modelling Deep Indeterminacy [PDF]
, 2021 This paper constructs a model of metaphysical indeterminacy that can accommodate a kind of ‘deep’ worldly indeterminacy that arguably arises in quantum mechanics via the Kochen-Specker theorem, and that is incompatible with prominent theories of ...
Darby, George, Pickup, Martin
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The conception of contemporary hypercivilization: J. Baudrillard
Creativity Studies, 2009 The article deals with the conception of hypercivilization that was developed by contemporary French media philosopher Jean Baudrillard and discusses its originality, innovation and philosophical‐sociological validity.
Jovilė Barevičiūtė
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists
Metaphysics, 2020 I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function ...
Theodore Locke
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The Phenomenology of Language and the Metaphysicalizing of the Real [PDF]
, 2017 This essay joins Wilhelm Dilthey’s conception of the metaphysical impulse as a flight from the tragedy of human finitude with Ludwig Wittgenstein’s understanding of how language bewitches intelligence.
Atwood, George E., Stolorow, Robert D.
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Noûs, 2017 AbstractThere is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my view, this analogy is no coincidence. Grounding and causation are alike because grounding is a type of causation: metaphysical causation. In this paper I defend the identification of grounding with metaphysical causation, drawing on the causation literature to ...
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Causal Powers and the Necessity of Realization [PDF]
, 2017 Non-reductive physicalists hold that mental properties are realized by physical properties. The realization relation is typically taken to be a metaphysical necessitation relation. Here, I explore how the metaphysical necessitation feature of realization
Baysan, Umut
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The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2015 The paper aims to display a limited observation of Feng’s interpretation of Western philosophy through the window of metaphysical methodology. This paper concentrates on Feng’s interpretation of Western philosophy from the perspective of metaphysical ...
Derong Chen
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