• Albion College
    Department of Philosophy, Albion College
    Assistant Professor
FSU
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Albion, Michigan, United States of America
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    In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debates such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the possibility of true contradictions, the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the limits of thought, and logic.
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    Socrates on the Virtues
    Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (1): 93-101. 2006.
  • Outstanding Graduate Philosophy Paper Award: "Contextualism and Confusability"
    Florida Philosophical Review 1 (1): 16-28. 2001.
    In "Contextualism and Confusability" I defend Epistemological Contextualism. Contextualists think that the statements "I know that I have hands," "I don't know that I'm not a brain in a vat," and "if I don't know that I'm not a brain in a vat, I don't know that I have hands," are all true—albeit not simultaneously. The first statement is true when an individual is not cognizant of the hypothesis that he might be a brain in a vat receiving just those sense impressions he is currently receiving. H…Read more
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    In Metaphysics Book Z, chapter eight, Aristotle seems to say that Callias and Socrates are compounds of matter and form—compounds that have the same form but are individuated by their matter. Stipulate that the material elements that compose Callias are redistributed to serve as the material elements of Socrates, and that Callias and Socrates share the same form, i.e., that of being a human. In addition, let it be assumed that any material thing is identical to its form and its matter. If it is …Read more
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    The Conditions for Two Conditionals in Hume’s Of Liberty and Necessity
    Southwest Philosophy Review 29 (1): 13-22. 2013.
    Hume considers the extent to which the Deity might be held responsible for resultant sin, given that he is responsible for the necessary chain of events leading thereto. Were we to place the responsibility with God, it would not, seemingly, be placed upon ourselves. If we countenance a necessary chain of events, and a perfect Deity, so the argument goes, we lack culpability. Hume rejects this line of reasoning, maintaining that the mind of man is by nature formed to attribute praise and blame to…Read more
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    Chrysippus
    In James Fieser & Bradley Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . 2011.
  • In an article entitled “Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? A Draft,” Myles Burnyeat suggested that we might do “what the seventeenth century did . . . [with the Aristotelian concept of the mind] . . . junk it.” Burnyeat buttressed this controversial claim, in large part, on the premise that it is difficult to believe that mental facts are not supervenient on physical facts in the wake of post-enlightenment thinking. Various valiant attempts to save Aristotle’s philosophy of mi…Read more
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    Subterranean Epistemic Blues
    Journal of Philosophical Research 34 177-188. 2009.
    I enter a debate herein concerning the role that Plato’s Forms are thought to play in the epistemic lives of everyday people. While some scholars believe that the Forms play a major role in everyday thinking, others maintain that their part is very minor. The latter view, I contend, is the more tenable. I argue that recent attempts to draw upon the Republic to establish the former are not only unsuccessful, but they tip the scale in favor of the latter.
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    " "Jeremy Kirby addresses a difficulty in Aristotle's metaphysics, namely the possibility that two organisms of the same species might share the same matter.
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    Subterranean Epistemic Blues
    Journal of Philosophical Research 34 177-188. 2009.
    I enter a debate herein concerning the role that Plato’s Forms are thought to play in the epistemic lives of everyday people. While some scholars believe that the Forms play a major role in everyday thinking, others maintain that their part is very minor. The latter view, I contend, is the more tenable. I argue that recent attempts to draw upon the Republic to establish the former are not only unsuccessful, but they tip the scale in favor of the latter.
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    Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic by Marko Malink
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 838-840. 2014.