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207The determinists have run out of luck—for a good reasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 745-748. 2008.In his paper ‘‘Bad luck once again’’ Neil Levy attacks our proof of the consistency of libertarianism by reiterating a time-worn compatibilist complaint.1 This is, that what is not determined must be due to chance. If A has a choice of X or Y, neither X nor Y being causally determined, then if A chooses X it can only be by chance, never for a reason. The only ‘‘reason’’ that could explain the choice of X over Y would have to be a causally sufficient reason, which would rule out A’s having a genuin…Read more
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131Indeterminist free willPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3). 2005.The aim of the paper is to prove the consistency of libertarianism. We examine the example of Jane, who deliberates at length over whether to vacation in Colorado (C) or Hawaii (H), weighing the costs and benefits, consulting travel brochures, etc. Underlying phenomenological deliberation is an indeterministic neural process in which nonactual motor neural states n(C) and n(H) corresponding to alternatives C and H remain physically possible up until the moment of decision. The neurophysiological…Read more
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30Indeterminist Free WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 681-690. 2007.The aim of the paper is to prove the consistency of libertarianism. We examine the example of Jane, who deliberates at length over whether to vacation in Colorado (C) or Hawaii (H), weighing the costs and benefits, consulting travel brochures, etc. Underlying phenomenological deliberation is an indeterministic neural process in which nonactual motor neural states n(C) and n(H) corresponding to alternatives C and H remain physically possible up until the moment of decision. The neurophysiological…Read more
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13Atwell R. Turquette. A method for constructing implication logics. Zeitschrift für mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, vol. 12 , pp. 267–278 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 33 (2): 308-309. 1968.
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26P. T. Geach. Aristotle on conjunctive propositions. Ratio , vol. 5 no. 1 , pp. 33–45Journal of Symbolic Logic 38 (4): 661-662. 1973.
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44A. N. Prior. Recent advances in tense logic. Basic issues in the philosophy of time, edited by Eugene Freeman and Wilfrid Sellars, Open Court, LaSalle, Ill., 1971, pp. 1–15. , pp. 325–339.) (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (1): 99. 1975.
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12Jean-Louis Gardies. La logique du temps. Collection SUP. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris1975, 160 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 42 (3): 430-432. 1977.
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116Model of the UniverseOxford University Press UK. 1996.Storrs McCall presents an original philosophical theory of the nature of the universe based on a striking new model of its space- time structure. He shows how his model illuminates a broad range of subjects, including causation, probability, quantum mechanics, identity, and free will, and argues that the fact that the model throws light on such a large number of problems constitutes strong evidence that the universe is as the model portrays it.
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19Note on “The Art of Time Travel: An Insoluble Problem Solved”Manuscrito 40 (1): 279-280. 2017.ABSTRACT In their contribution to the first part of this special issue Craig Bourn and Emily Caddick Bourne claim to have solved a puzzle I put forward in my ‘An Insoluble Problem’. Here I argue that their attempt fails.
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6The Determinists Have Run Out of Luck---For a Good ReasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 745-748. 2008.
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26A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. By Alexander Maslow. University of California Press, 1961, pp. xxii, 162 (review)Dialogue 2 (1): 114-115. 1963.
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30Incline Without NecessitatingDialogue 24 (4): 589-. 1985.A stranger runs out of a bank while I am sitting at the wheel of my car waiting for the lights to change; he jumps in beside me, points a gun at me, and says, “Drive me to St. Bruno.” This is Andre Gombay's example, from his excellent paper on duress. The question that interests Gombay and me is: Could I refrain from doing what the gunman asks?
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29Łukasiewicz Jan. Aristotle's syllogistic from the standpoint of modern formal logic. Second edition of XVII 209. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1957, xiii + 222 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 27 (2): 217-218. 1962.
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228Does the Brain Lead the Mind?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 86 (2): 262-265. 2013.Over the last 25 years, experimental findings published by Benjamin Libet have indicated that conscious acts of will are preceded by a characteristic kind of brain event of which the agent is not conscious. It, Libet says, rather than the will, is what causes actions. His discoveries, if correct, would seem to imply that the notion of a free, conscious will is an illusion, and that actions are initiated by neural processes not under conscious control. In what follows it is argued that Libet’s co…Read more
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289The definition of enduranceAnalysis 69 (2): 277-280. 2009.David Lewis, following in the tradition of Broad, Quine and Goodman, says that change in an object X consists in X's being temporally extended and having qualitatively different temporal parts. Analogously, change in a spatially extended object such as a road consists in its having different spatial parts . The alternative to this view is that ordinary objects undergo temporal change in virtue of having different intrinsic non-relational properties at different times. They endure, remaining the …Read more
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