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11Review 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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10European 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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10If P, then Q Conditionals and the Foundations of ReasoningPhilosophical Books 32 (1): 31-32. 1991.
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10Grasp of Essences versus IntuitionsIn Booth Anthony Robert & P. Rowbottom Darrell (eds.), Intuitions, Oxford University Press. 2014.One currently popular methodology of metaphysics has it that ‘intuitions’ play an evidential role with respect to metaphysical claims. This chapter defends a realist methodology of metaphysics that implies that any rational being, simply in virtue of being rational, is necessarily capable of grasping the essences of at least some mind-independent entities. The notion of essence in play here is Aristotelian, whereby an entity’s essence is captured by an account of what that entity is, or what it …Read more
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10Perception By Howard RobinsonLondon and New York: Routledge, 1994, xii + 260 pp., £37.50 (review)Philosophy 70 (273): 463-. 1995.
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9How Are Identity Conditions Grounded?In Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 73-90. 2007.
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9Review of F. P. Ramsey (M. C. Galavotti ed.), Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 300-301. 1997.
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9IndividuationIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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8NotebookPhilosophy 64 (n/a): 432. 1989.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0031819100044831/resource/name/firstPage-S0031819100044831a.jpg.
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8Essence and OntologyIn Lukás Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík & David Svoboda (eds.), Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag. pp. 93-112. 2012.
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8Non-individualsIn Thomas Pradeu & Alexandre Guay (eds.), Individuals Across the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2016.An individual, as this term will be understood here, is an entity to which the concepts of unity and identity fully and determinately apply. That is to say, an entity x is an individual just in case x determinately counts as one entity and x has a determinate identity. Many philosophers tacitly assume that all entities are individuals in the foregoing sense, and indeed that it is a necessary truth that they are. But this can certainly be disputed. It is, very arguably, both logically and metaphy…Read more
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8What is the ‘Problem of Induction’?Philosophy 62 (241): 325-340. 1987.This paper falls into three parts. In the first I retrace the steps which, have led many to consider that there is a ‘problem of induction’ which may have only a sceptical solution. In the second I explain why I think we cannot rest content with such a solution. In the third I try to show how a new approach to certain key concepts in the philosophy of science—in particular the concept of natural law—may help towards a non-sceptical resolution of the problem.
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8Review of Elena Castellani: Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (2): 353-355. 2000.
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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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6Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the selfIn Kevin Corcoran (ed.), Soul, body, and survival: essays on the metaphysics of human persons, Cornell University Press. 2001.
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6The Determinists Have Run Out of Luck---For a Good ReasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 745-748. 2008.
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5The Absoluteness of Identity: A DefenceIn More Kinds of Being, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Appendix: Some Formal Principles and Arguments.
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