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2EventsIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Our Ontological Commitment to Events Three Criteria: Spatio‐temporal Coincidence, Necessary Spatio‐temporal Coincidence, and Sameness of Cause and Effect The Property Exemplification Account of Events (PEE)
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4Universals and the Realism/Nominalism DisputeIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: The Issue Varieties of Nominalism Two Conceptions of Universals The Regress Charge and two Unsuccessful Attempts to Meet it An Alternative.
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1Persons and Personal IdentityIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Our Ontological Commitment to Persons Candidates for Persistence Conditions for Persons The Closest Continuer Theory and Its Problems Does the Concept of Identity Apply to Persons? The Multiple Occupancy Thesis Back to Basics: Continuity and Fission A Suggestion.
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3Material SubstancesIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Our Ontological Commitment to Material Substances The Bundle Theory and the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles Problems with the Bundle Theory The Bare Substratum Theory and the Principle of Acquaintance Objections to the Bare Substratum Theory An Alternative.
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The Nature and Function of MetaphysicsIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: The Methodology and Subject Matter of Metaphysics Aristotle's Conception of Metaphysics Kant's Conception of Metaphysics A Working Conception of Metaphysics.
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7Some Tools of MetaphysicsIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Criteria of Ontological Commitment: Two Examples ‘No Entity without Identity’: Identity Conditions for Objects Individuation Conditions, Identity Conditions, and Metaphysical Kinds Principles and Criteria of Identity.
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FrontmatterIn Varieties of Things, Blackwell. 2005.The prelims comprise: Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface.
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30On the Unifier—Multiplier ControversyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (4). 1978.Many recent discussions of the identity and individuation of actions focus on attempts to find satisfactory answers to questions like, “When, if ever, is a shooting a killing?” Those who attempt to answer such questions divide themselves, on the whole, into two opposing groups. I. Thalberg has conveniently labelled the members of one group ‘unifiers’, and the members of the other group ‘multipliers’.The unifier account is commonly attributed to philosophers such as G. E. M. Anscombe and Donald D…Read more
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12Cicero, Pro Flacco, 37Classical Quarterly 29 (1): 217-218. 1979.Haec quae est a nobis prolata laudatio obsignata erat creta ilia Asiatica quae fere est omnibus nota nobis, qua utuntur omnes non modo in publicis sed etiam in privatis litteris quas cotidie videmus mitti a publicanis, saepe uni cuique nostrum.
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16McDowell’s Alternative Conceptions of the WorldInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (1): 87-94. 2011.
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6Book note (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (4): 615. 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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42Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.This volume is a comprehensive survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of issues and provides students with the basic background to current debates in metaphysics
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18Critical noticesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (2). 1997.An Essay On Rights By Hillel Steiner Basil Blackwell, 1994. Pp. x + 305. ISBN 0-631-19027-9. Price 14.95 Connectionism and eliminativism: reply to Stephen Mills in Vol. 5, No. 1.
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IntrospectionIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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41Emergence and Non-reductive PhysicalismIn Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry & Tom Lancaster (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Emergence, Routledge. pp. 195-205. 2018.
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11Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary MetaphysicsWiley-Blackwell. 2008._Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics_ is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals. Mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism
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86Rethinking folk-psychology: Alternatives to theories of mindPhilosophical Explorations 11 (3). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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942Mary Meets Molyneux: The Explanatory Gap and the Individuation of Phenomenal ConceptsNoûs 38 (3): 503-524. 2004.It is widely accepted that physicalism faces its most serious challenge when it comes to making room for the phenomenal character of psychological experience, its so-called what-it-is-like aspect. The challenge has surfaced repeatedly over the past two decades in a variety of forms. In a particularly striking one, Frank Jackson considers a situation in which Mary, a brilliant scientist who knows all the physical facts there are to know about psychological experience, has spent the whole of her l…Read more
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