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97Reply to wright on conditionals and transitivityAnalysis 45 (4): 200-202. 1985.E. J. Lowe; Reply to wright on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis, Volume 45, Issue 4, 1 October 1985, Pages 200–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/45.4.2.
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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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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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28Vagueness and MetaphysicsIn Giuseppina Ronzitti (ed.), Vagueness: A Guide, Springer Verlag. pp. 19--53. 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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1Sortal Terms and Natural Laws: An Essay on the Ontological Status of the Laws of NatureAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 17 (4): 253-260. 1980.
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207Event causation and agent causationGrazer Philosophische Studien 61 (1): 1-20. 2001.It is a matter of dispute whether we should acknowledge the existence of two distinct species of causation – event causation and agent causation – and, if we should, whether either species of causation is reducible to the other. In this paper, the prospects for such a reduction either way are considered, the conclusion being that a reduction of event causation to agent causation is the more promising option. Agent causation, in the sense understood here, is taken to include but not to be restric…Read more
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710The rationality of metaphysicsSynthese 178 (1): 99-109. 2011.In this paper, it is argued that metaphysics, conceived as an inquiry into the ultimate nature of mind-independent reality, is a rationally indispensable intellectual discipline, with the a priori science of formal ontology at its heart. It is maintained that formal ontology, properly understood, is not a mere exercise in conceptual analysis, because its primary objective is a normative one, being nothing less than the attempt to grasp adequately the essences of things, both actual and possible,…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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166Routledge philosophy guidebook to Locke on human understandingRoutledge. 1995.Locke on Human Understanding, is a comprehensive introduction to John Locke's major work, Essay Concerning Human Understanding . Locke's Essay remains a key work in many philosophical fields, notably in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of mind and language. In addition, Locke is often referred to as the first English empiricist. Knowledge of this influential work and figure is essential to Enlightenment thought. E. J. Lowe's approach enables students to effectively study the Essay …Read more
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87In defence of the simplicity argumentAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 78 (1). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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18Against disjunctivismIn Adrian Haddock & Fiona Macpherson (eds.), Disjunctivism: perception, action, knowledge, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--111. 2008.
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309New directions in metaphysics and ontologyAxiomathes 18 (3): 273-288. 2008.A personal view is presented of how metaphysics and ontology stand at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in the light of developments during the twentieth. It is argued that realist metaphysics, with serious ontology at its heart, has a promising future, provided that its adherents devote some time and effort to countering the influences of both its critics and its false friends.
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3Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousnessIn Julian Hughes, Stephen Louw & Steven R. Sabat (eds.), Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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323The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and TimeClarendon Press. 1998.Jonathan Lowe argues that metaphysics should be restored to a central position in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories of being and the relations between them. He sets out his own original metaphysical system, within which he seeks to answer many of the deepest questions in philosophy. 'a very rich book... deserves to be read ca…Read more
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61Wright versus Lewis on the Transitivity of CounterfactualsAnalysis 44 (4). 1984.E. J. Lowe; Wright versus Lewis on the transitivity of counterfactuals, Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 4, 1 October 1984, Pages 180–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/ana.
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