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240The Need for Ontology: Some ChoicesPhilosophy 68 (266): 505-522. 1993.The aim of this paper is to set out some of the ontologies amongst which some forms of anti-realism must select. This provides the appropriate setting for presenting an alternative realist ontology. The argument is that the choice between the varieties of anti-realism and realism is inevitably a choice between ontologies.
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297On the need for properties: The road to pythagoreanism and backSynthese 112 (2): 193-231. 1997.The development of a compositional model shows the incoherence of such notions as levels of being and both bottom-up and top-down causality. The mathematization of nature through the partial considerations of physics qua quantities is seen to lead to Pythagoreanism, if what is not included in the partial consideration is denied. An ontology of only probabilities, if not Pythagoreanism, is equivalent to a world of primitive dispositionalities. Problems are found with each. There is a need for pro…Read more
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176Dispositions: A DebateRoutledge. 1996.Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
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405How it is: Entities, absences and voidsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (1). 1996.This Article does not have an abstract
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601Intentionality and the non-psychologicalPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (4): 531-54. 1986.IT IS SHOWN IN DETAIL THAT RECENT ACCOUNTS FAIL TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN INTENTIONALITY AND MERELY CAUSALLY DISPOSITIONAL STATES OF INORGANIC PHYSICAL OBJECTS—A QUICK ROAD TO PANPSYCHISM. THE CLEAR NEED TO MAKE SUCH A DISTINCTION GIVES DIRECTION FOR FUTURE WORK. A BEGINNING IS MADE TOWARD PROVIDING SUCH AN ACCOUNT.
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55Dispositions: A Debate (edited book)Routledge. 1996.Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. _Dispositions: A Debate_ is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
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Final replies to Place and ArmstrongIn Tim Crane, D. M. Armstrong & C. B. Martin (eds.), Dispositions: A Debate, Routledge. pp. 163--192. 1996.
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52Properties and DispositionsIn Tim Crane, D. M. Armstrong & C. B. Martin (eds.), Dispositions: A Debate, Routledge. pp. 71-87. 1996.
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174The Mind in NatureOxford University Press. 2007.What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical.
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118Contexts and the Concept of Mild Context-SensitivityLinguistics and Philosophy 26 (6). 2003.We introduce and study a natural extension of Marcus external contextual grammars. This mathematically simple mechanism which generates a proper subclass of simple matrix languages, known to be mildly context-sensitive ones, is still mildly context-sensitive. Furthermore, we get an infinite hierarchy of mildly context-sensitive families of languages. Then we attempt to fill a gap regarding the linguistic relevance of these mechanisms which consists in defining a tree structure on the strings gen…Read more
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56Dillenschneider, C., Teología y espiritualidad deI sacerdote (review)Augustinianum 6 (1): 153-154. 1966.
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70Correlation between yttrium segregation at the grain boundaries and the threshold stress for plasticity in yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalsPhilosophical Magazine 83 (1): 93-108. 2003.Nowadays, the high-temperature plasticity of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystals is successfully explained in terms of a threshold stress. Despite the fact that its existence is very well proved experimentally, the origin and nature of the threshold stress are still unexplained. This work develops a possible explanation for the threshold stress in YTZPs. The model developed in this paper is able to explain quantitatively the dependence of this threshold stress with temperature and…Read more
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52Javierre, Antonio M., El tema literario de la sucesión. Prolegómenos para el estudio de la Sucesión Apostolica (review)Augustinianum 5 (3): 545-545. 1965.
