• Uber das zentrale Argument fur den erkenntnistheoretischen Idealismus
    Facta Philosophica: Internazionale Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsphilosophie: International Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 4 89-103. 2002.
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    An onto-nomological theory of modality
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 91 (1): 47-72. 2006.
    This paper is dedicated to the formulation of a restricted theory of ontic modality (for example, I do not address questions that arise when modal operators interact with quantifiers, although some of the theoretical developments presented here certainly suggest such questions). As will be seen, notwithstanding its restrictions, the theory has a pleasing richness to it, as well as formal rigor and intuitive satisfactoriness. It also offers an unusual perspective on modality.
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    Der Kausalbegriff gehört zu den, gerade in der Gegenwart, am häufigsten in Anspruch genommenen philosophischen Begriffen. In Erkenntnistheorie, Wissenschaftstheorie, der Philosophie des Geistes, in der Handlungstheorie und der Sprachphilosophie taucht er immer wieder in zentraler Funktion auf. Für die Philosophie ist die Deutung des Kausalbegriffs daher von größter Bedeutung. Das vorliegende Buch ist ein Leitfaden zum Kausalbegriff. In seinem ersten Teil wird eine detaillierte Explikation dieses…Read more
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    Abstraction and universality in Aquinas, Thomas
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 101 (1): 22-37. 1994.
  • Husserls Dualismus
    E-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie 9. 2007.
    The paper expounds the sense in which Husserl was not a psychophysical dualist – but also the sense in which he was a psychophysical dualist after all. On the one hand, it takes into account Husserl’s critical statements regarding “dualism,” on the other hand it closely considers Husserl’s understanding of the intentionality of phenomenal experiences. It is shown that Husserl’s writings contain several argumentations that can be interpreted as arguments for psychophysical dualism . It is argued …Read more
  • Review (review)
    Metaphysica 9 (2): 247-250. 2008.
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    Essential Conceptions of Events
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 76 183-194. 2000.
  • Oxford Studies in Metaphysics
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 78 (1): 308-314. 2009.
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    This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model.
  • 1. the reductio
    In Friedrich Beck, Carl Johnson, Franz von Kutschera, E. Jonathan Lowe, Uwe Meixner, David S. Oderberg, Ian J. Thompson & Henry Wellman (eds.), Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Lexington Books. pp. 143. 2008.
  • Axiomatic Formal Ontology
    Studia Logica 64 (1): 137-140. 1997.
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    States of Affairs – the Full Picture
    In Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.), States of Affairs, De Gruyter. pp. 51-70. 2009.
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    Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    with Friedrich Beck, Carl Johnson, Franz von Kutschera, E. Jonathan Lowe, David S. Oderberg, Ian J. Thompson, and Henry Wellman
    Lexington Books. 2008.
    Until quite recently, mind-body dualism has been regarded with deep suspicion by both philosophers and scientists. This has largely been due to the widespread identification of dualism in general with one particular version of it: the interactionist substance dualism of Réné Descartes. This traditional form of dualism has, ever since its first formulation in the seventeenth century, attracted numerous philosophical objections and is now almost universally rejected in scientific circles as empiri…Read more
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    From Plato to Frege: Paradigms of Predication in the History of Ideas (review)
    Metaphysica 10 (2): 199-214. 2009.
    One of the perennial questions of philosophy concerns the simple statements which say that an object is so and so or that such and such objects are so and so related: simple predicative statements. Do such statements have an ontological basis, and if so, what is that basis? The answer to this question determines—or in any case, is expressive of—a specific fundamental outlook on the world. In the course of the history of Western philosophy, various philosophers have given various answers to t…Read more
  • Uwe Meixners Essay stellt in gedrängter Form die Hauptgedanken seines 1997 publizierten großen systematischen Entwurfes “Ereignis und Substanz” vor, der neben einer Ontologie im engeren Sinn auch eine Bewusstseinstheorie, eine philosophische Gotteslehre und eine Theodizee beinhaltet. Im vorliegenden Beitrag erläutert er seinen Begriff von Substanz, der eng mit seiner Sicht von Kausalität zusammenhängt und vertritt dabei den radikalen Standpunkt, dass Ereigniskausalität auf Agenskausalität, die v…Read more
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    Parmenides und die Logik der Existenz
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 47 (1): 59-75. 1994.
    Es wird gezeigt, daß sich Parmenides' Argument gegen Veränderung und Vielheit aus den Fragmenten seines Lehrgedichts so rekonstruieren läßt, daß es entweder formal korrekt wird, oder aber seine Prämisse,,Seiendes ist, Nichtseiendes ist nicht" evidentermaßen richtig ist. Beides zugleich ist nicht zu haben. Es wird plausibel gemacht, daß die Rekonstruktionen in Parmenides' Sinn sind. Betrachtet man sein Argument als formal korrekt, so stellt es, wenn wir das Zeugnis der Erfahrung akzeptieren, eine…Read more
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    Causation in a new old key
    Studia Logica 76 (3). 2004.
    I argue (1) that it is not philosophically significant whether causation is linguistically represented by a predicate or by a sentence connective; (2) that there is no philosophically significant distinction between event- and states-of-affairs-causation; (3) that there is indeed a philosophically significant distinction between agent- and event-causation, and that event-causation must be regarded as an analog of agent-causation. Developing this point, I argue that event-causation's being in the…Read more
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    The Emergence of Rational Souls
    In Antonella Corradini & Timothy O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in science and philosophy, Routledge. pp. 6--163. 2010.
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    Husserls Dualismus
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 10 (1): 157-179. 2007.
    The paper expounds the sense in which Husserl was not a psychophysical dualist – but also the sense in which he was a psychophysical dualist after all. On the one hand, it takes into account Husserl’s critical statements regarding “dualism,” on the other hand it closely considers Husserl’s understanding of the intentionality of phenomenal experiences. It is shown that Husserl’s writings contain several argumentations that can be interpreted as arguments for psychophysical dualism. It is argued t…Read more
  • Eine Explikation Des Begriffs Der Zurechnung
    Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2. 1994.
    This article provides an explication of the concept "imputation". On the one hand, this explication takes account of the common meaning of the concept and its generally intended range of application. On the other hand, it also provides a definition of the meaning of "y is to be imputed to x", which is precise and fruitful . The adequacy of this definition of "imputation" is justified in detail, in the light of the standards for explications. Since the concept "imputation" is a highly complex not…Read more