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The Case Against Powers [PDF]

, 2021
Powers ontologies are currently enjoying a resurgence. This would be dispiriting news for the moderns; in their eyes, to imbue bodies with powers is to slide back into the scholastic slime from which they helped philosophy crawl.
Ott, Walter
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

Arguing about the world’s cardinality: Priority, existence, and metaphysical necessity

Filosofia Unisinos, 2018
Metaphysicians still discuss about the number of things. According to monists, there is one thing, either fundamental (Priority Monism) or exclusionary (Existence Monism).
Sebastián Briceño
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting the Afterlife: The Inadequacies of Heaven and Hell [PDF]

, 2015
This paper deals with some of the ambiguities that are associated with the intermediate and final states after death. Whereas many in the church have dismissed these concepts as myths of the ancients, this discussion shows how the grounding of such ...
Davis, Christopher P
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
wiley   +1 more source

Anomalousness in action [PDF]

, 1999
Book synopsis: The latest volume of the critically acclaimed Library of Living Philosophers series is devoted to the work of analytic philosopher Donald Davidson.
Hornsby, Jennifer
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Towards a theory of presence

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The present paper presents a new (formal) theory of presence according to which, roughly, to be present at a place is to have a delegate located at that place. One crucial feature of the theory is that something can be present at a place without thereby being located there.
Claudio Calosi
wiley   +1 more source

Moderate monism, persistence and sortal concepts [PDF]

, 2007
Coincidence (e.g., of a statue and the piece of bronze which constitutes it) comes in two varieties – permanent and temporary. Moderate monism (about coincidence) is the position that permanent coincidence, but not temporary coincidence, entails ...
Noonan, Harold
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Editor\u27s Introduction [PDF]

, 2011
The publication of Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010) has been welcomed by many scholars in the field of Hindu-Christian studies as one of the best books in comparative ...
Malkovsky, Brad
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Unstructured Purity

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purity is the principle that fundamental facts only have fundamental constituents. In recent years, it has played a significant (if sometimes implicit) role in metaphysical theorizing. A philosopher will argue that a fact [p]$[p]$ contains a derivative entity and cite Purity as a reason to deny that [p]$[p]$ is fundamental. I argue that recent
Samuel Z. Elgin
wiley   +1 more source