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18Two Originals, One Artwork: On the Ontology of Originals and ImprovisationsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59 (2): 119-134. forthcoming.There is disagreement as to the ontological status of works associated with an original. Some hold that works like paintings are identical to the concrete particular the artist worked on while creating the artwork. Others suggest that works of this sort cannot be instantiated more than once. In this paper, it is argued that, even if artworks like paintings cannot be instantiated in reproductions, they are nevertheless possibly instantiated more than once. Moreover, it is tentatively suggested th…Read more
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15Aussagen- Und Prädikatenlogik: Eine EinführungJ.B. Metzler. 2018.Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt eines der wichtigsten Werkzeuge der Philosophie durch die Einführung in die Grundideen einer formalen Sprache. Schrittweise werden so die relevanten Sprachstrukturen aufgedeckt, die dann in der Aussagen- und Prädikatenlogik formalisiert werden. Sowohl die Semantik als auch ein Kalkül des natürlichen Schließens werden jeweils detailliert diskutiert. In Kombination mit einer Lernplattform wird der zentrale Stoff anwendungsorientiert und plastisch vermittelt, was die auch…Read more
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14Editorial - Second European Graduate School: Philosophy of Language, Mind and ScienceAbstracta 5 (2): 113-115. 2009.
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13Ein Fundament in Lebenswelt und Apriori (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (5): 809-815. 2023.
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11Mental Disorder and the Indirect Construction of Social FactsJournal of Social Ontology 3 (1): 27-48. 2016.In this paper, I argue for two claims, that on a common conception of the second order property of being a mental disorder, some facts about mental disorders are the result of social constructions, and that the way facts about mental disorders are constructed differs from the received view on social construction. The difference is examined, a novel type of social construction is identified, and it is suggested that there are numerous other types of social facts that are constructed in a similar …Read more
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9Nagel on Idealization in ScienceIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 111-130. 2021.The goal of this paper is to reconstruct Nagel’s approach to idealization in the sciences and present his views as a viable option. In a nutshell, the theory that emerges can be described as follows: There are various types of idealization, which can be found in theoretical and experimental laws, and which, according to Nagel, play various important epistemic roles. In particular, they help organize complex knowledge and allow for approximations to truth. A cognate of idealization, which Nagel d…Read more
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5Leibniz on Freedom, Divine Foreknowledge, and Necessitation without DependenceStudia Leibnitiana 48 (2): 178-200. 2016.
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Cultural domination: philosophical perspectives (edited book)Routledge (expected 2024). forthcoming.
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In Search of the Missing MechanismIn Rebekka Hufendiek, Daniel James & Raphael van Riel (eds.), Social Functions in Philosophy: Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 70-92. 2020.
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Personal Identity. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John PerryIn Albert Newen & Raphael van Riel (eds.), Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry, Csli. 2012.
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Constructionism in Psychiatry. From Social Causes to Psychiatric ExplanationFrontiers in Psychiatry 7 1-25. 2016.It is common to note that social environment and cultural formation shape mental disorders. The details of this claim are, however, not well understood. The paper takes a look at the claim that culture has an impact on psychiatry from the perspective of metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Its aim is to offer, in a general fashion, partial explications of some significant versions of the thesis that culture and social environment shape mental disorders and to highlight some of the conseque…Read more