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A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [PDF]

, 2018
There is an old meta-philosophical worry: very roughly, metaphysical theories have no observational consequences and so the study of metaphysics has no value.
Baron, Samuel
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Some Consequences of Physics for the Comparative Metaphysics of Quantity

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 12, 2020
According to comparativist theories of quantities, their intrinsic values are not fundamental. Instead, all the quantity facts are grounded in scale-independent relations like “twice as massive as” or “more massive than.” I show that this sort of scale ...
D. Baker
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“God Has Not Died, He Became Government”: Use-of-Oneself and Immanence in Giorgio Agamben’s Work

Philosophies
This article delves into the theme of the death of God in Giorgio Agamben’s work from a political perspective, seeking to interpret the notion of “God” in Agamben through the concepts of “government” and “transcendence”.
Benjamim Brum Neto
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The evolution of the ideas of metaphysics and ontology

Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2020
The categories of metaphysics and ontology in aspect of their evolution are considered in the article. At the beginning of the article, we are talking about the absence of the term «being» in ancient languages and its birth as a philosophical term ...
D. V. Ankin
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Universe creation on a computer [PDF]

, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the epistemology and metaphysics of universe creation on a ...
McCabe, Gordon
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty

Religions
In this article, I argue that Newman’s emphasis on a gestaltic model of reasoning and the role played by the imagination in informal reasoning is a fruitful starting point for an exploration of convergence between the Grammar of Assent and Wittgenstein’s
Modesto Gómez-Alonso
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Automating Leibniz’s Theory of Concepts [PDF]

, 2015
Our computational metaphysics group describes its use of automated reasoning tools to study Leibniz’s theory of concepts. We start with a reconstruction of Leibniz’s theory within the theory of abstract objects (henceforth ‘object theory’).
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Detecting Introspective Errors in Consciousness Science

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Detecting introspective errors about consciousness presents challenges that are widely supposed to be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. This is a problem for consciousness science because many central questions turn on when and to what extent we
Andy McKilliam
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Muslim Philosophers on the Relation between Metaphysics and Theology [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019
Muslim Philosopherson the Relation between Metaphysics and Theology Mohammad Saeedimehr* Received: 01/07/2019     |       Accepted: 05/09/2019 In different parts of Metaphysics, Aristotle presents different (and apparently, conflicting) views on the ...
Mohammad Saeedimehr
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Ontology as Transcendental Philosophy [PDF]

, 2018
How does the critical Kant view ontology? There is no shared scholarly answer to this question. Norbert Hinske sees in the Critique of Pure Reason a “farewell to ontology,” albeit one that took Kant long to bid (Hinske 2009).
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