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12What is metaphysics?Polity. 2021.Metaphysics can be understood as the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality. In this textbook for students new to the topic, John Heil covers the key concepts in an original, jargon-free way.
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11The Propositional AttitudesProtoSociology 8 53-67. 1996.Traditionally conceived, rational action is action founded on reasons. Reasons involve the propositional attitudes — beliefs, desires, intentions, and the like. What are we to make of the propositional attitudes? One possibility, a possibility endorsed by Donald Davidson, is that an agent’s possession of propositional attitudes is a matter of that agent’s being interpretable in a particular way. Such a view accounts for the propositional content of the attitudes, but threatens to undercut their …Read more
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11Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (review)Philosophical Review 117 (1): 119-122. 2008.
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6Review of powers: A study in metaphysics} by George M olnar (review)Journal of Philosophy 101 (8): 438-43. 2004.
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6"The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism" by Barry Stroud (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (2): 331. 1986.
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6Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989.
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5CausationIn Ernie Lepore & Kurt Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 2013.Davidson's account of mental causation initiated in “Mental Events” forms a backdrop to much subsequent discussion of the topic. Davidson is commonly taken to defend token identity – token mental events are identical with token physical events – but type diversity – mental types “supervene on,” but are not reducible to or identical with physical types, where types are understood as properties. Mental events are physical events, but one and the same event can have a physical property and, by virt…Read more
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5Tropes: Properties, Objects, and Mental Causation (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 604-607. 2013.
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4Mental CausationIn Stephen P. Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The Cartesian Background Intentionality Functionalism Levels of Reality Causation and Broad States of Mind Qualia Zombies Conclusion.
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3EditorialJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (1): 1--2. 2015.ABSTRACT You hold in your handsâor perhaps are viewing onlineâthe first of four issues of the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. The Journal was inspired by the idea that the time had come for the American Philosophical Association to sponsor a journal serving the interests of the philosophical community worldwide, a fully generalist journal dedicated to publishing philosophically compelling articles in a timely manner
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1Minds, Bodies and Affections: Plato and Aristotle on the Metaphysics of the MentalDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1995.BAristotle introduces his hylomorphism in the De Anima not as a challenge to the immateriality of Platonic souls, but in response to a problem about the causal relationship between soul and body raised by Plato's theory of affections in the Philebus. Plato holds that mental states have a unique structure. They are characterized by what we would call intentionality and are thereby radically different in kind from physiological states . This sharp divide between the affections, however, leaves une…Read more
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Properties and PowersIn Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2004.
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Are We Brains in a Vat? Top Philosopher Says, "No"!In Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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Must there be brute facts?In Elly Vintiadis & Constantinos Mekios (eds.), Brute Facts, Oxford University Press. 2018.