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67Time Travel for EndurantistsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 52 (4): 357-364. 2015.Famously, David Lewis argued that we can avoid the apparent paradoxes of time travel by introducing a notion of personal time, which by and large follows the causal flow of the time traveler's life history. This paper argues that a related approach can be adapted for use by three-dimensionalists in response to Ted Sider's claim that three-dimensionalism is inconsistent with time travel. In contrast to Lewis (and others who follow him on this point), however, this paper argues that the order of e…Read more
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152Implicit ontological commitmentPhilosophical Studies 141 (1). 2008.Quine’s general approach is to treat ontology as a matter of what a theory says there is. This turns ontology into a question of which existential statements are consequences of that theory. This approach is contrasted favourably with the view that takes ontological commitment as a relation to things. However within the broadly Quinean approach we can distinguish different accounts, differing as to the nature of the consequence relation best suited for determining those consequences. It is sugge…Read more
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The Consolations of OptimismIn David Benatar (ed.), Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.
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44Concise encyclopedia of philosophy of languageAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3). 2001.Book Information Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language. Edited by Peter V. Lamarque. Pergamon Press. 1997. Pp. xix + 599. Dfl 298, US$171.50.
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54Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and The GapCRC Press. 2015.Is the theory of evolution by means of natural selection a tautology? This book explores the explanatory structure of Darwin’s theory at a time when selectionist explanations are being brought forward to explain a wider and wider range of phenomena.
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