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Is Kant's critique of metaphysics obsolete?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 25-53, July 2025.Abstract I raise a problem about the possibility of metaphysics originally due to Kant: what explains the fact that the terms in our metaphysical theories (e.g., ‘property’, ‘grounding’) refer to entities and structures (e.g., properties, grounding) in the world?
Nicholas F. Stang
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The Fractal Self and the Organization of Nature: The Daoist Sage and Chaos Theory
Zygon, 1999 The interconnections between self and surroundings in Daoist thought have been explored in the past in a variety of contexts. This paper, however, explores the Daoist version of the relational self from the general perspective of chaos theory and, more ...
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2018 AbstractIt is widely held, even among nonnaturalists, that the moral supervenes on the natural. This is to say that for any two metaphysically possible worldswandw′, and for any entitiesxinwandyinw′, any isomorphism betweenxandythat preserves the natural properties preserves the moral properties.
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Legal Methodology and Complexity: A Comment on Allen
Ratio Juris, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 108-128, July 2025.Abstract This article is a response to Ronald J. Allen's “Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law.” I begin by analyzing three key concepts that Allen employs in his argument: reductionism, emergence, and complexity. On the basis of this analysis, I question Allen's criticism of the reductionist approach that, according to him, legal scholarship ...
Michele Ubertone
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Zygon, 1999 Nancey Murphy has been influential in the religion‐and‐science field through her espousal of the work of Imre Lakatos, more recently developed into a three‐tier approach to the joint epistemology of scientific and religious thought incorporating also ...
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The spaces in the looking glass: stilling the frame/framing the still [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 The purpose of this writing is to propose a frame of view, a form as the eternal world element, that is compatible with paradox within the history of ideas, modern discovery as they confront one another.
Marvin E. Kirsh
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Diagnosing ideal world objections
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1018-1036, November 2025.
Caleb Perl
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Correlations and How to Interpret Them
Information, 2019 Correlations between observed data are at the heart of all empirical research that strives for establishing lawful regularities. However, there are numerous ways to assess these correlations, and there are numerous ways to make sense of them.
Harald Atmanspacher, Mike Martin
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Fodor's Causal Argument and Unwarranted Supervenience Assumption; Examining Egan's Argument [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsIn this essay, I examine Fodor's argument in favor of psychological individualism and Egan's response. According to Fodor's causal argument, every scientific theory individualizes states or identities according to their causal powers.
Abbas Mahdavi
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Supervenience, Dependence, Disjunction
Logic and Logical Philosophy, 2018 This paper explores variations on and connections between the topics mentioned in its title, using as something of an anchor the discussion in Valentin Goranko and Antti Kuusisto’s “Logics for propositional determinacy and independence”, a venture into what the authors call the logic of determinacy, which they contrast with (a demodalized version of ...
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