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The Metaphysics of Establishments
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2020 I present two puzzles about the metaphysics of stores, restaurants, and other such establishments. I defend a solution to the puzzles, according to which establishments are not material objects and are not constituted by the buildings that they occupy.
Daniel Z. Korman
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, 2011 Analyzing the position of two philosophers whose views are recognizably divergent, W. O. Quine and M. Dummett, we intend to support a striking point of agreement between them: the idea that our logical principles constitute our principles about what ...
Alves, Daniel Durante Pereira
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Pеter Lnitskyi as an Apologist Metaphysics in “Age of Science”
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2019 The article is about metaphysical studies of Peter Linitskyi’s (1839–1906), a professor of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics in the Kyiv Theological Academy. For many years P. Linitskyi taught students of the Academy all parts of metaphysics.
Viktor Kozlovskyi
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Asian Studies, 2020 In past work on Chinese “cosmology”, I have resisted using the term “metaphysics” because of the history of this term in classical Greek philosophy.
Roger T. Ames
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, 2009 It is shown through examples ranging from Parmenides and Plato to Whitehead and Wittgenstein that beauty is central among the values that have made metaphysical theories appealing and credible.
Hasker, William
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Supervenience in metaphysics [PDF]
, 2008 Supervenience is a topic-neutral, broadly logical relation between classes of properties or facts. In a slogan, <i>A</i> supervenes on <i>B</i> if and only if there cannot be an <i>A</i>-difference without a <i>B&
Leuenberger, S.
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Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy [PDF]
, 2012 Collingwood has failed to make a significant impact in the history of twentieth century philosophy either because he has been dismissed as a dusty old idealist committed to the very metaphysics the analytical school was trying to leave behind, or because
D'Oro, G
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Agamben Reading Kafka: The Animal Way to Paradise
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural HermeneuticsThe aim of this paper is to revisit the theme of paradise and animality in the work of Kafka, whilst at the same time elucidate Agamben's complex understanding of these notions with the help of the literary imagery of Kafka.
Ype de Boer, Anke Snoek
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The Case Against Higher-Order Metaphysics
Metaphysics, 2022 Although higher-order metaphysics seems prima facie to be a promising new approach to metaphysics, it is nonetheless based on a mistake. This mistake is tied to a misuse of formal languages in metaphysics in general, not just to the use of higher-order ...
Thomas Hofweber
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Towards a characterization of metaphysics of biology: metaphysics for and metaphysics in biology
Synthese, 2022 AbstractSince the last decades of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the use of metaphysics by philosophers when approaching conceptual problems in biology has increased. Some philosophers call this tendency in philosophy of biology ‘Metaphysics of Biology’ (Guay and Pradeu in Synthese 1–20, 2017).
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