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33An onto-nomological theory of modalityPoznan 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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4A Brief Ontology of Spatial and Temporal LocalizationIn Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 91-102. 2007.
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31The Case for Agent-CausationIn Miroslaw Szatkowski & Marek Rosiak (eds.), Substantiality and Causality, De Gruyter. pp. 113-128. 2014.
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Die Zentralität der analytischen Methode für die Philosophie, insbesondere die der AntikeHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2. 1999.In addition to delineating a creative and non-deterministic notion of conceptual analysis, the paper defends two theses, one conceptual, the other historical: Although philosophical activity can certainly not be conceptually reduced to conceptual analysis, conceptual analysis is nevertheless central to it and encompasses what can be most properly called "philosophical" about it. The history of philosophy, particularly of ancient philosophy, confirms a posteriori the adequacy of thesis
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15This 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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1Nichttarskische Semantik der modalen AussagenlogikIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 98-102. 1994.
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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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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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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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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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5Physik und MetaphysikIn Christian Tapp & Christof Breitsameter (eds.), Theologie Und Naturwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 157-184. 2014.
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70Psycho-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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41The 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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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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5The Rationality of (a Form of) Relative IdentityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2): 449-455. 2007.
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103Causation 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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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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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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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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6Theorie 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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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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28Husserl’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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