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44Truthmaking as Essential DependenceIn Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Ontos Verlag. pp. 237-259. 2007.
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50Powerful Particulars:Review Essay on John Heils From an Ontological Point of View (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2): 466-479. 2007.John Heil's new book (Heil 2003) is remarkable in many ways. In a concise, lucid and accessible manner, it develops a complete system of ontology with many strikingly original features and then applies that ontology to fundamental issues in the philosophy of mind, with illuminating results. Although Heil acknowledges his intellectual debts to C. B. Martin (p. viii), he is unduly modest about his own contribution to the development and application of this novel metaphysical system. A full examina…Read more
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208Subjects of ExperienceCambridge University Press. 1996.In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He defends a substantival theory of the self as an enduring and irreducible entity - a theory which is unashamedly committed to a distinctly non-Cartesian dualism of self and body. Takin…Read more
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67Does the descriptivist/anti-descriptivist debate have any philosophical significance?Philosophical Books 48 (1): 27-33. 2007.
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324Material coincidence and the cinematographic fallacy: A response to OlsonPhilosophical Quarterly 52 (208): 369-372. 2002.Eric T. Olson has argued that those who hold that two material objects can exactly coincide at a moment of time, with one of these objects constituting the other, face an insuperable difficulty in accounting for the alleged differences between the objects, such as their being of different kinds and possessing different persistence-conditions. The differences, he suggests, are inexplicable, given that the objects in question are composed of the same particles related in precisely the same way. In…Read more
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35Powers: A study in metaphysicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (4): 817--822. 2004.
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637Two notions of being: Entity and essenceRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 62 23-48. 2008.s div class="title" a terTwo Notions of Being: Entity and Essence s /div a ter - Volume 62 - E. J. Lowe.
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7On the individuation of powersIn Anna Marmodoro (ed.), The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations, Routledge. 2010.
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66Forms of Thought: A Study in Philosophical LogicCambridge University Press. 2013.Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional thoughts, about what would or might be the case if something else were the case. Even the simplest thoughts are structured like sentences, containing referential and predicative elements, and studyi…Read more
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76Substance causation, powers, and human agencyIn E. J. Lowe, S. Gibb & R. D. Ingthorsson (eds.), Mental Causation and Ontology, Oxford Up. pp. 153--172. 2013.Introduction , Sophie Gibb 1. Mental Causation , John Heil 2. Physical Realization without Preemption , Sydney Shoemaker 3. Mental Causation in the Physical World , Peter Menzies 4. Mental Causation: Ontology and Patterns of Variation , Paul Noordhof 5. Causation is Macroscopic but not Irreducible , David Papineau 6. Substance Causation, Powers, and Human Agency , E. J. Lowe 7. Agent Causation in a Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics , Jonathan D. Jacobs and Timothy O’Connor 8. Mental Causation and Dou…Read more
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76Review of D.m. Armstrong, Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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240A neo-Aristotelian substance ontology: neither relational nor constituentIn Tuomas E. Tahko (ed.), Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 229-248. 2012.Following the lead of Gustav Bergmann ( 1967 ), if not his precise terminology, ontologies are sometimes divided into those that are ‘relational’ and those that are ‘constituent’ (Wolterstorff 1970 ). Substance ontologies in the Aristotelian tradition are commonly thought of as being constituent ontologies, because they typically espouse the hylemorphic dualism of Aristotle ’s Metaphysics – a doctrine according to which an individual substance is always a combination of matter and form. But an a…Read more
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