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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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5States of Affairs – the Full PictureIn Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.), States of Affairs, Ontos. pp. 51-70. 2009.
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Aquinas on Forms, Individuation, and MatterFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 43 (1/2): 45-64. 1996.
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320Table of ContentsTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 7 (2): 1-2. 1992.In fact, Godel gave an important model of pure predication, where he showed that restricted comprehension without parameters is valid, but where restricted comprehension with parameters is not (although this invalidity was not established until Cohen). This is the model based on ordinal definability in set theory.
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9Eine 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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Die Metaphysik von Ereignis und SubstanzPolylog. 2001.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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156New perspectives for a dualistic conception of mental causationJournal of Consciousness Studies 15 (1): 17-38. 2008.The paper provides new perspectives for a dualistic conception of mental causation by putting causation that originates in a nonphysical self into an evolutionary perspective. Nonphysical causation of this type - free agency -, together with nonphysical consciousness, is regarded as being not only compatible with physics, but also as having a natural place in nature. It is described how free agency can work, on the basis of the brain, and how it can be compatible with the result of the Libet-exp…Read more
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51The rationality of (a form of) relative identity (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2). 2005.
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6Chapter I: On ImaginingIn Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology, De Gruyter. pp. 1-89. 2014.
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Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which doesIn Robert C. Koons & George Bealer (eds.), The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, Oxford University Press. 2009.This chapter offers a version of Cartesian dualism that draws on the resources of a Husserlian account of intentionality. For example, it argues that 'I can locate myself at the point in space from which I am looking at the world (my 'center of perspective')'. It relies on empirical phenomenology to show that this location that does not correspond to my body or any part of it. Phantom sensations provide confirming evidence. Next, the chapter uses the example of blurred (versus sharp) vision to p…Read more
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7The Emergence of Rational SoulsIn Antonella Corradini & Timothy O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in science and philosophy, Routledge. pp. 6--163. 2010.
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