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Nomic Necessity for Platonists [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2013 After identifying some existing explanations offered by nomic necessitarians for the alleged necessary connections between natural properties and their dispositional or nomic features, I discuss a less explored necessitarian strategy. This strategy is available to Platonists who hold that properties exist necessarily, as most do.
Matthew Tugby
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Grounds, Modality, and Nomic Necessity in the Critical Kant [PDF]
, 2017 Michela Massimi
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Necessity for finite rational minds– Kant on empirical nomic necessity and the conceptual purposiveness of nature [PDF]
SyntheseAbstractKant claims that empirical laws of nature “carry with them an expression of necessity” (Kant, 1998; A159/B198). What precisely is this “expression of necessity” and what grounds it? The metaphysical necessitation approach asks “What are laws of nature for Kant?” It answers that, for Kant, empirical laws possess necessity and are grounded in the
Ido Geiger
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Aisthesis, 2022 In this paper I argue for a strong continuity between the transcendental deduction of the principle of purposiveness of nature and the transcendental deduction of the ideas from the first critique.
Lorenzo Sala
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The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations [PDF]
, 2020 It’s commonly held that particular moral facts are explained by ‘natural’ or ‘descriptive’ facts, though there’s disagreement over how such explanations work.
Fogal, Daniel, Risberg, Olle
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, 2017 The nomic view of dispositions holds that properties confer dispositions on their bearers with nomological necessity. The argument against nomic dispositions challenges the nomic view: if the nomic view is true, then objects don't have dispositions, but '
Baysan, Umut
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RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2017 The article deals with the semantic gap between generations in the era of changing eco-nomic-political course of the country. The necessity of state intervention and the creation of proactive strategies in working with young people to strengthen the ...
Maria G Ivanova
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The possibility of onion worlds: rebutting an argument for structural universals [PDF]
, 2007 The possibility of gunk has been used to argue against mereological nihilism. This paper explores two responses on the part of the microphysical mereological nihilist: (1) the contingency defence, which maintains that nihilism is true of the actual world;
Williams, J.R.G.
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COMPUTER SIMULATIONS IN METAPHYSICS: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS
Manuscrito, 2019 Computer models and simulations have provided enormous benefits to researchers in the natural and social sciences, as well as many areas of philosophy.
BILLY WHEELER
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