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14This book is intended as a comprehensive defense of psycho-physical dualism. It gives answers to the question of what dualism may consist in, and inquires into the broadly cultural motivation behind accepting dualism or its opponent physicalism. Arguments for dualism, among them strengthened versions of the famous classical arguments, are presented and defended against objections. Moreover, the various general objections to dualism are criticized in detail, for example, the allegation that duali…Read more
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2Chapter III: On IntendingIn Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 247-350. 2014.
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14Three Logico-Ontological Notions and MereologyIn Christer Svennerlind, Almäng Jan & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investigations: Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday, Ontos Verlag. pp. 5--439. 2013.
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27Seele, Denken, Bewusstsein: zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Geistes (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2003.Welchen ontologischen Status hat das Ich? Verfugen wir uber Selbstwissen und wenn ja, in welchem Sinne?
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1Husserl transzendentaler Idealismus als Supervenienzthese. Ein interner RealismusIn Manfred Frank & Niels Weidtmann (eds.), Husserl und die Philosophie des Geistes, Suhrkamp. 2010.
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5Physik und MetaphysikIn Christian Tapp & Christof Breitsameter (eds.), Theologie Und Naturwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 157-184. 2014.
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69Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary ApproachLexington 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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31Eine logische Rekonstruktion der platonischen PrädikationstheorieGrazer Philosophische Studien 43 (1): 163-175. 1992.In diesem Aufsatz wird eine axiomatisierte logische Rekonstmktion der Platonischen Prädikationstheorie vorgeschlagen, aufbauend auf der Ähnlichkeitsrelation. Die Theorie ist konsistent und trivial. Selbst-Prädikation bereitet darin keine Schwierigkeiten und das Dritte-Mann-Argument wird als harmlos aufgezeigt. Es werden Kriterien dafür, daß etwas ein Standardgegenstand (eine Form oder Idee) ist, aufgestellt und ausgeführt, daß diese die Platonische Ideentheorie implizieren. Die Grenzen von Piato…Read more
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6Of Quantum Physics and DOMINDARsIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 17-34. 2014.
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39The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as worked out by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself. This book examines this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Hacker, Dennett, and others. In defending Husserl against his critics, it offers a comprehensive fresh view of phenomenology as a philosophy of mind.
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37Modelling metaphysics: the metaphysics of a modelOntos. 2010.This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model.
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5The Rationality of (a Form of) Relative IdentityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2): 449-455. 2007.
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99Causation in a new old keyStudia 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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100Laws of Nature—A Skeptical ViewIn Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler & Max Urchs (eds.), Nature's Principles, Springer. pp. 229--238. 2005.
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5Theorie der Kausalität: ein Leitfaden zum Kausalbegriff in zwei TeilenBrill Mentis. 2001.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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6Appendix to Chapter I: The German originals Appendix to Chapter I: The German originals of the quotations from Husserl and Wittgenstein in Chapter I, and remarks on matters of translationIn Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 90-102. 2014.
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51Review of Yujin Nagasawa, God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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2Augustinus über Zeitmessung, Gleichzeitigkeit und die Widerlegung der Astrologie. Bemerkungen zur Philosophie der Zeit in Augustinus' ConfessionesPhilosophia Naturalis 38 (2): 299-318. 2001.
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27Husserl’s Classical Conception of Intentionality – and Its EnemiesIn Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock (ed.), Husserl as Analytic Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 55-86. 2016.
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31Philosophie des GeistesIn Uwe Meixner & Albert Newen (eds.), Seele, Denken, Bewusstsein: zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Geistes, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 308. 2003.
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51Events and their realityLogic and Logical Philosophy 2 (5): 23-33. 1994.This paper presents a set-theoretical conceptual framework for theorizing about (possible) events , and states some analytical and synthetical principles which describe the way in which the concept of reality (or actuality ) applies to them. The conceptual framework has few primitives, but is nevertheless of great definitional power; the demonstration of this will fill the first part of the paper
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Negative Theology, Coincidentia Oppositorum, and Boolean AlgebraHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1 75-89. 1998.In Plato's Parmenides we find on the one hand that the One is denied every property , and on the other hand that the One is attributed every property . In the course of the history of Platonism , these assertions - probably meant by Plato as ontological statements of an entirely formal nature - were repeatedly made the starting points of metaphysical speculations. In the Mystical Theology of the Pseudo-Dionysius they became principles of Christian mysticism and negative theology. I shall show th…Read more
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Uber das zentrale Argument fur den erkenntnistheoretischen IdealismusFacta Philosophica: Internazionale Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsphilosophie: International Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 4 89-103. 2002.
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1Chapter IV: On the LiteratureIn Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 361-482. 2014.
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1Metaphysics in the post-metaphysical age: papers of the 22st [sic] International Wittgenstein Symposium, August 15-21, 1999, Kirchberg am Wechsel (edited book, review)Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 1999.
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8BibliographyIn Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 493-499. 2014.
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