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In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are all False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. He argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-09-02
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Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts? Are there things composed of the same parts? If you divide an object into parts, and divide those parts into smaller parts, will this process ever come to an end? Can something lose parts or gain new ones without...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-07-22
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Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or impossible. Debates...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-10
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Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or impossible. Debates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-10
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New Texts in the History of Philosophy
Published in association with the British Society for the History of Philosophy
The aim of this series is to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of the history of philosophy, including the rediscovery of neglected...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-08
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This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading figure of British philosophy in the early twentieth century. He was partly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-04
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History of Analytic Philosophy
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This study is about what matters in survival--about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual. For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-05-06
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This study is about what matters in survival--about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual. For common sense there is such a relation and it is identity, but according to Parfit common sense is wrong in this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-06
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In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-12
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Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, and offers answers from diverse philosophical perspectives. The contributors draw on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone. Sven Rosenkranz conceives...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-09
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Justification as Ignorance offers an original account of epistemic justification as both non-factive and luminous, vindicating core internalist intuitions without construing justification as an internal condition knowable by reflection alone. Sven Rosenkranz conceives...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-09
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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.The transcendental level is a mind-independent level at which things in themselves exist.The empirical level is a fully mind-dependent level at which appearances...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-18
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The world, according to Kant, is made up of two levels of reality: the transcendental and the empirical.The transcendental level is a mind-independent level at which things in themselves exist.The empirical level is a fully mind-dependent level at which appearances...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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Concepts related to probability permeate physics. This is most obvious in statistical mechanics, in which probabilities appear explicitly, but even in cases when predictions are made with near-certainty, there are implicit probabilistic assumptions in play. How are we...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-11
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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. In these lectures,Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-04
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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. In these lectures,Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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