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154The mystery of the physical and the matter of qualitiesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1). 1998.For some fifty years now, nearly all work in mainstream analytic philosophy has made no serious attempt to understand the _nature of_ _physical reality,_ even though most analytic philosophers take this to be all of reality, or nearly all. While we've worried much about the nature of our own experiences and thoughts and languages, we've worried little about the nature of the vast physical world that, as we ourselves believe, has them all as only a small part
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87Minimizing Arbitrariness: Toward a Metaphysics of Infinitely Many Isolated Concrete WorldsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 9 (1): 29-51. 1984.
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54Reply to James Van Cleve (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (2): 467-475. 2010.James Van Cleve’s contribution consists of a brief preamble and three numbered sections; in each he characterizes some position(s) of mine. In the first two numbered sections, when characterizing my positions, most of what he says is accurate. In the preamble, by contrast, and especially in the third section, there are misleading mischaracteriza- tions. First, I’ll try to remedy that. Then I’ll reply to some questions raised in his first two sections
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76Précis of all the power in the world (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (2): 455-456. 2010.No Abstract
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566I do not existIn Graham Macdonald (ed.), Perception and Identity, Cornell University Press. 1979.