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22Origins of Analytical Philosophy By Michael Dummett London:Duckworth, 1993, xi+199pp., £25.00 (review)Philosophy 69 (268): 246-. 1994.
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22Objects and criteria of identityIn R. Hole & C. Wright (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Blackwell. 1997.'Object' and 'criterion of identity' are philosophical terms of art whose application lies at a considerable theoretical remove from the surface phenomena of everyday linguistic usage. This partly explains their highly controversial status, for their point of application lies precisely where the concerns of linguists and philosophers of language merge with those of metaphysicians. This chapter explains the possession of determinate identity‐conditions. It argues that the distinction between 'abs…Read more
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20Why Is There Anything At All?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70 (Supplementary): 95-120. 1996.
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19Locke: Compatibilist Event‐Causalist or Libertarian Substance‐Causalist? (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (3): 688-701. 2004.Towards the end of Chapter XXI of Book II of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke remarks, with all the appearance of sincerity and genuine modesty, that.
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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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17Beyond Deduction: Ampliative Aspects of Philosophical Reflection By Frederick L. Will London: Routledge, 1988, x + 260pp, £22.00 (review)Philosophy 64 (249): 424-. 1989.
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16Some Formal Ontological RelationsDialectica 58 (3): 297-316. 2004.Some formal ontological relations are identified, in the context of an account of ontological categorization. It is argued that neither formal ontological relations nor ontological categories should themselves be regarded as elements of being, but that this does not undermine the claim of formal ontology to be a purely objective science. It is also argued that some formal ontological relations, like some ontological categories, are more basic than others. A four‐category ontology is proposed, in…Read more
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15Review of Frank Plumpton Ramsey and Maria Carla Galavotti: Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 300-301. 1997.
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15Review. Notes on philosophy, probability and mathematics. FP Ramsey (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 300-301. 1997.
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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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13In Defense of Moderate‐Sized Specimens of Dry GoodsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (3): 704-710. 2003.
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12Non‐Cartesian Substance DualismIn Jonathan J. Loose, Angus John Louis Menuge & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.Non‐Cartesian substance dualism is a position in the philosophy of mind concerning the nature of the mind‐body relation or, more exactly, the person‐body relation. Whereas Cartesian substance dualism takes subjects of experience to be necessarily immaterial and indeed nonphysical substances, non‐Cartesian substance dualism does not insist on this. This distinctive feature of non‐Cartesian substance dualism gives it certain advantages over Cartesian dualism, without compelling it to forfeit any o…Read more
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