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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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17Encounter with Nothingness. An Essay on Existentialism.Begegnung mit dem NichtsPhilosophical Quarterly 2 (8): 279-280. 1952.
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25McTaggart'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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235Is 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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17The 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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6Problems of Space and Time, by J. J. C. Smart (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 43 (1): 104-109. 1965.
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2Nicholas Denyer, Time, Action and Necessity: A Proof of Free Will (review)Philosophy in Review 3 111-112. 1983.
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30Linguistic analysis and the justification of inductionPhilosophical Quarterly 5 (21): 316-328. 1955.
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16Ayer's anti-phenomenalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2). 1958.This Article does not have an abstract
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PEARS, D. F. : "Freedom and the will" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (n/a): 277. 1963.
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21McTaggart's Paradox: Two ParodiesPhilosophy 56 (217): 333-348. 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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11Wittgenstein on Meaning, Understanding, and IntendingAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1). 1966.
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Philosophy of Action |
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