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50A Brief History of the Philosophy of TimeOxford University Press. 2013.A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present
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920Time-awareness and projection in Mellor and KantKant Studien 101 (1): 59-74. 2010.The theorist who denies the objective reality of non-relational temporal properties, or ‘A-series’ determinations, must explain our experience of the passage of time. D.H. Mellor, a prominent denier of the objective reality of temporal passage, draws, in part, on Kant in offering a theory according to which the experience of temporal passage is the result of the projection of change in belief. But Mellor has missed some important points Kant has to make about time-awareness. It turns out that Ka…Read more
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48Leibniz on the Epistemic Status of the MysteriesPhilosophy and Theology 13 (1): 143-158. 2001.In this paper, I examine Leibniz’s account of the epistemic status of the Christian Mysteries in his “Preliminary Dissertation on the Conformity of Faith with Reason.” In it, the Mysteries are held to be true, yet also to be beyond human comprehension. This conjunction gives rise to a dilemma: how can the Mysteries bemeaningfully asserted if they are unintelligible? To answer this, Leibniz compares them to natural truths, which are demonstrable by God alone. To complicate matters, however, he su…Read more
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51Two Problems for the Proper Functionalist Analysis of Epistemic WarrantSouthwest Philosophy Review 15 (2): 97-107. 1999.
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