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223Presentism: Through Thick and ThinPacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (3): 325-347. 2008.Abstract: Presentism is the view that whatever exists presently exists. Without defending Presentism, I argue first that Presentists should be Time-Free Presentists – Presentists whose views do not imply that there exist irreducible times. Second, I argue that Presentists should accept Limited Thick Presentism, the view that 'the present' has some extension and is thereby neither durationlessly thin nor unlimitedly 'thick'. Third, before addressing several objections to Limited Time-Free Thick P…Read more
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157Passage and the presence of experiencePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (3): 537-552. 1990.
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123Boundaries, surfaces, and continuous wholesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 235-245. 1986.
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103ConjoiningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 41 (3): 371-385. 1981.When is it that two objects compose a whole? Or, put another way, if Z is an object composed of X and Y, then what must be done to bring it about that X and Y both exist and Z does not exist? The author defends an answer to what is now know as the Special Composition Question.
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39The Anselmian 'Single-Divine-Attribute Doctrine'Religious Studies 29 (1). 1993.There have emerged two distinct approaches to preserving the coherence of theism. The most common approach involves explicating the concept of an absolutely perfect God in terms of the divine attributes and then analyzing the divine-attribute concepts in such a way that they are rendered mutually consistent. According to this ‘multiple-attribute’ approach, the coherence of theism ultimately turns both on whether each divine-attribute concept can be coherently analyzed independently of the other …Read more
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30Philosophy in Britain Today. Edited by S. G. Shanker (review)Modern Schoolman 68 (2): 181-183. 1991.
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29A Realistic Theory of Categories (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (1): 217-223. 2000.Roderick M. Chisholm’s A Realistic Theory of Categories is a metaphysics treatise of extraordinary breadth and precision. Published in the year of its author’s eightieth birthday, Categories is a lean exposition of Chisholm’s systematic metaphysics, including his views on attributes, propositions, possible worlds, numbers, classes, relations, intentionality, events, time, space, material objects, persons, appearances, fictitious objects, and God. Chisholm develops his metaphysics with the resour…Read more
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11Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space: On Going NowhereLexington Books. 2020.Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.
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9A Realistic Theory of Categories: An Essay on OntologyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 61 (1): 217-223. 1996.
H. Scott Hestevold
The University of Alabama
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The University of AlabamaRetired faculty