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Jerome M. Segal, Agency and Alienation: A Theory of Human Presence (review)Philosophy in Review 12 431-433. 1992.
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Alan Donagan, Choice: The Essential Element in Human Action (review)Philosophy in Review 9 4-6. 1989.
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3The Recovery of the Soul: An Aristotelian Essay on Self-FulfilmentMcgill-Queen's University Press. 1991.In The Recovery of the Soul, Kenneth Rankin suggests that the current impasse over solutions to many philosophical problems is the result, in part, of a failure to consider how each of these problems bears on the rest. Rankin shows that a libertarian theory of free will, an A-theory of time, a corporealist theory of personal identity, and a non-relativist interpretation of the foundation of ethics all contribute to or are derived from a psychocentric form of physicalism. The proposed Modal Ident…Read more
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4A Metaphysical Confirmation of "Folk” PsychologyMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 9 135-143. 1993.
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12Encounter with Nothingness. An Essay on Existentialism.Begegnung mit dem NichtsPhilosophical Quarterly 2 (8): 279-280. 1952.
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24McTaggart, Mereology, Substance and ChangeDialogue 21 (1): 57-78. 1982.McTaggart maintained that, without the kind of change which events undergo in passing from the future through the present into the past, how things are would be fundamentally different from how they appear. More particularly Without A-change there could be no change at all. Without any change there could be no time. Without A-change there could be no time.
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22The Refutation of Determinism: An Essay in Philosophical LogicPhilosophical Review 80 (1): 106. 1971.
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17A deterministic windmillAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (2). 1963.This Article does not have an abstract
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4Nicholas Denyer, Time, Action and Necessity: A Proof of Free Will Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 3 (3): 111-112. 1983.
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HITROW, G. J.: "The Natural Philosophy of Time" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 40 (n/a): 249. 1962.
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1TOMS, ERIC: "Being, negation and logic" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (n/a): 272. 1963.
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BUNGE, M. - "Causality: The Place of the Principle in Modern Science" (review)Mind 70 (n/a): 107. 1961.
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26McTaggart's Paradox: Two ParodiesPhilosophy 56 (217). 1981.To be truly provocative and outrageous the superior philosophical sophistry will commonly possess four somewhat adventitious features. I shall rate it as classic if it has all four. First, and least adventitiously, the argument will be crisp and initially seductive. Second, by the standard the sophistry sets direct rebuttal will be laborious and diffuse. Third, the recipe for the latter will prescribe that we pick out some hitherto unarticulated logical principle such that if the principle be tr…Read more
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6More on the deterministic windmillAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 42 (3). 1964.This Article does not have an abstract
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236Is the third man argument an inconsistent triad?Philosophical Quarterly 20 (81): 378-380. 1970.To understand the tma we should follow a rule of polemical force as well as a rule of validity. Following just the latter vlastos renders the explicit theory of forms and the two suppressed premises as an inconsistent triad. But the rule of polemical force indicates that the explicit theory is ambivalent. Just one f-Ness must be the basis, Either for any f thing being f, Or for any set of f things being just that set. It cannot be the basis for all f things being f
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18The Trinitarian Vision of P. F. StrawsonPhilosophy Research Archives 1164 745-771. 1976.Along with more frequently discussed theses, Strawson in his Chapter on Persons has maintained that the perceptual experience of the same subject could be causally dependent upon a multiplicity of bodies. But, without drastic revision, his effort to show in illustration that the visual experience of one subject might causally depend upon three different bodies is too fraught with difficulty to lend coherent support. When the difficulties are removed by revision, the truth of the thesis depends u…Read more
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Philosophy of Action |
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