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88A true, necessary falsehoodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1). 1999.This Article does not have an abstract
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20I. Familiar Characterizations of SculptureIn Christy Mag Uidhir (ed.), Art and Abstract Objects, Oxford University Press. pp. 223. 2013.
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59Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the PastOxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 5 5 41. 2010.
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256A materialist metaphysics of the human personCornell University Press. 2001.Introduction In the first four chapters of this book, I develop and defend a monistic account of human persons according to which human persons are highly ...
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137Reply to Parsons, Reply to Heller, and Reply to Rea (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2): 452-470. 2008.
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35Feinberg on the Criterion of Moral PersonhoodJournal of Applied Philosophy 13 (3): 311-318. 1996.In a very influential paper, Abortion, Joel Feinberg offers a series of arguments against four popular proposals for the criterion of moral personhood and defends a fifth proposal. In this paper, I demonstrate that two widely‐accepted arguments employed by Feinberg against the modified species criterion and the strict potentiality criterion, respectively, are unsound. Moreover, I argue that there is a general feature of his inquiry into the criteria for moral personhood which undermines his effo…Read more
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126Temporal parts and moral personhoodPhilosophical Studies 93 (3): 299-316. 1999.Three Dimensionalists and Four Dimensionalists are engaged in a debate on the topics of persistence and mereology. In this paper, I explore implications of Four Dimensionalism for the formulation of the criterion of personhood and on the question of which individuals satisfy that criterion. In my discussion I argue that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to identify a human person with a proper part of a human organism, and that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to believe that if there is some…Read more
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