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15An Axiomatization of the Thomasic Ontology of CompositionRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (1-2): 65-136. 2023.This treatise delves into the construction and formalization of a precise theory to encapsulate a pivotal facet of Thomas Aquinas’s ontology. In particular, it focuses on the development of a formal language that is adequate for formulating Aquinas’s understanding of the simultaneous nature of divinity as both an object of subsistence and a universal, individual, and actuating form—a concept evocative of the original Platonic sense of form. The presented axiomatized theory as a medium for expoun…Read more
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3Der Begriff der Notwendigkeit in der Antike und in der GegenwartIn Hans Rott & Vitezslav Horak (eds.), Possibility and Reality, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 13-50. 2003.
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13Three Logico-Ontological Notions and MereologyIn Christer Svennerlind, Almäng Jan & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investigations: Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday, Ontos Verlag. pp. 439-447. 2013.
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1Dualism and ResurrectionIn Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler & Josef Quitterer (eds.), The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, Ontos. pp. 263-276. 2011.
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1The Interpretation(s) of PredicationIn Lukás Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík & David Svoboda (eds.), Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag. pp. 229-246. 2012.
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6Table of ContentsIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. 2014.
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14Thomas Buchheim, corneille Henri Kneepkens und Kuno Lorenz (hg.), Potentialität und possibilität, frommann-holzboog: Stuttgart-bad cannstadt 2001Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 (1): 240-242. 2004.
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6The ContributorsIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 209-210. 2014.
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8Thomas BUCHHEIM / Corneille Henri KNEEPKENS / Kuno LORENZ , Potentialitat und Possibilitat. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstadt: Frommann-Holzboog 2001Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 (1): 240. 2004.
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5Subject IndexIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 203-208. 2014.
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12PrefaceIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 1-2. 2014.
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5Name IndexIn Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 199-202. 2014.
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7No Life without TimeIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), God, Time, Infinity, De Gruyter. pp. 105-114. 2018.
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7Intelligible WorldsIn Alessandro Giordani & Ciro de Florio (eds.), From Arithmetic to Metaphysics: A Path Through Philosophical Logic, De Gruyter. pp. 289-308. 2018.
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387First Causes: Divine and HumanEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (1): 125--140. 2013.The paper analyzes the concept of a first cause, both for event causation and for agent causation. It turns out that one is rather ready to believe in the existence of first causes that are events, but not in the existence of first causes that are agents. The paper, however, develops and defends a complex argument to the conclusion that there is a first agent-cause. one version of that argument proves -- not necessarily the existence of God -- but still the existence of a godlike agent. Finally,…Read more
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14Der Begriff der Notwendigkeit in der Antike und in der GegenwartKriterion - Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 19-38. 2002.This paper has two parts. The first part (sections 1 to 5) is historical, presenting a brief history of the concept of necessity from the time of antiquity to the present. It is shown that the conceptions of necessity in antiquity had four main sources: matter-necessity, form-necessity, efficiencynecessity, and purpose-necessity. Special attention is accorded to the syncretistic concept of the necessity of fate, and its transformations from the beginning of antiquity to its end. Moreover, it is …Read more
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645A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - Perhaps GodEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2): 169--178. 2012.The paper presents a new version of the "Cosmological Argument" – considered to be an ontological argument, since it exclusively uses ontological concepts and principles. It employs famous results of modern physics, and distinguishes between event-causation and agent-causation. Due to these features, the argument manages to avoid the objection of infinite regress. It remains true, however, that the conclusion of the argument is too unspecific to be unambiguously considered an argument for the ex…Read more
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108Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.Quantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas physicalism implies a reductive position in the philosophy of mind, quantum physics is compatible with non-reductionism, and actually seems to support it. The essays in this book explore, from various points of view, the possibilities of basing a non-reductive philosophy of mind on quantum physics."--Back cover.
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Ontologie, Metaphysik und der ontologische IdealismusIn Vittorio Hösle & Fernando Suarez Müller (eds.), Idealismus heute: aktuelle Perspektiven und neue Impulse, Wbg. 2015.
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11Critical Comments on Nicholas Rescher’s »Why Is There Anything at All? Leibnizian Ruminations on Ultimate Questions«Philosophisches Jahrbuch 123 (2): 531-542. 2016.
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4Der Begriff der Notwendigkeit in der Antike und in der GegenwartKriterion - Journal of Philosophy 1 (16): 19-38. 2002.This paper has two parts. The first part is historical, presenting a brief history of the concept of necessity from the time of antiquity to the present. It is shown that the conceptions of necessity in antiquity had four main sources: matter-necessity, form-necessity, efficiencynecessity, and purpose-necessity. Special attention is accorded to the syncretistic concept of the necessity of fate, and its transformations from the beginning of antiquity to its end. Moreover, it is pointed out that a…Read more
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28A Paradox for the Existence PredicateBulletin of the Section of Logic 51 (2): 267-280. 2022.In this paper, a paradox is shown to arise in the context of classical logic from prima facie highly plausible assumptions for the existence predicate as applied to definite descriptions. There are several possibilities to evade the paradox; all involve modifications in the principles of first-order logic with identity, existence, and definite descriptions; some stay within classical logic, others leave it. The merits of the various "ways out" are compared. The most attractive "way out," it is a…Read more
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7Über das zentrale Argument für den erkenntnistheoretischen IdealismusFacta Philosophica 4 (1): 89-103. 2002.
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293K. C. F. Krause: The Combinatorian as LogicianEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (2). 2022.In a time which it is not amiss to term “the Dark Ages of logic”, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause stayed not only true to logic but actually did something for its advancement. Besides making systematic use of Venn-diagrams long before Venn, Krause — once more taking his inspiration from Leibniz — propounded what appears to be the first completely symbolic systematic representation of logical forms, strongly suggestive of the powerful symbolic languages that have become the mainstay of logic sinc…Read more
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14Causal Predicates, Causal Principles, and the Core of CausationRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77 (4): 1153-1174. 2021.How might one tackle the subject of causation with the least amount of preformed conceptions – and arrive by a series of well-motivated conceptual decisions at a concept of causation that captures the “heart of the matter”? This essay is a sustained attempt to answer this question. On the way, causal predicates of various degrees of importance are defined and causal principles of various degrees of plausibility discussed, all of this in the service of approaching, step by step, “the heart of the…Read more
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7Axiomatic Formal OntologyKluwer Academic Publishers. 1997.Axiomatic Formal Ontology is a fairly comprehensive systematic treatise on general metaphysics. The axiomatic method is applied throughout the book. Its main theme is the construction of a general non-set-theoretical theory of intensional entities. Other important matters discussed are the metaphysics of modality, the nature of actual existence, mereology and the taxonomy of entities.
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12Negative Theology, Coincidentia Oppositorum, and Boolean AlgebraHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1 (1): 75-89. 1998.
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