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‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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A Flaw in Sider's Vagueness Argument for Perdurantism: Endurantism Endures

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sider's vagueness argument for perdurantism (2001: 126ff.) has long been seen as one of the most powerful, or perhaps the most powerful, in the perdurantist's arsenal. In its absence, the case against endurantism is significantly weakened. Despite its age, there is still no generally agreed view on its worth.
Harold W. Noonan
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Is the Quantum State Real? An Extended Review of ψ-Ontology Theorems

Quanta, 2014
Towards the end of 2011, Pusey, Barrett and Rudolph derived a theorem that aimed to show that the quantum state must be ontic (a state of reality) in a broad class of realist approaches to quantum theory.
Matthew Saul Leifer
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The nature and norms of scientific explanation: Some preliminaries

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023
There are at least two deep and related debates about explanation: about its nature and about its norms. The aim of this special issue of Philosophical Problems in Science/Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce (ZFN) is to survey whether or not a consensus is ...
Abel Peña, Cory Wright
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Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
wiley   +1 more source

Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics $ψ$-Ontic or $ψ$-Epistemic? [PDF]

, 2022
Mario Hubert
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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Eliminative Ontic Structural Realism and the Metaphysical Underdetermination Argument: A Critique

Studia Philosophiae Christianae
In this paper I address the problem of justifying Steven French’s eliminative ontic structural realism by the metaphysical underdetermination argument.
Damian Luty
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Il pluralismo esistenziale di Étienne Souriau. Breve introduzione alla filosofia dei modi di esistenza

Philosophy Kitchen, 2016
During the darkest years of the SecondWorldWar, the French esthetician Étienne Souriau (long forgotten and recently rediscovered) developed an original pluralist ontology based on the notion of “mode of existence”.
Filippo Domenicali
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