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1. The Monist: Volume > 66 > Issue: 3
Manley Thompson Philosophical Approaches to Categories
...-dimensionality of time as it is to deny the incompatibility between universal affirmative and ... with Aristotle remains a question for the metaphysics of form and matter and is not ... objects, “difference of spatial position at one and the same time is still an adequate ...
2. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science: Volume > 33 > Issue: 1
Cord Friebe Metaphysics of laws and ontology of time
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At first glance, every metaphysics of laws (humeanism, primitivism, power metaphysics) can be combined with every ontology of time (eternalism, growing block, presentism). In contrast, this paper intends to show that humeanism requires eternalism and that Power metaphysics must presuppose an existentially dynamical view of temporal existence, i.e. the growing block view or presentism. The presented arguments turn out to be completely independent of whether the laws of nature are deterministic or probabilistic: the world is non-productive and static or productively dynamical, the future be ‘open’ or not.A primera vista, cualquier metafísica sobre las leyes (Humeanismo, primitivismo, metafísica de Poderes) puede ser combinada con cualquier ontología sobre el tiempo (eternalismo, bloque creciente, presentismo). Por el contrario, este artículo intenta mostrar que el Humeanismo requiere eternalismo, y que la metafísica de Poderes debe presuponer una visión existencialmente dinámica de la existencia temporal, i.e., la teoría del universo de bloque creciente o el presentismo. Los argumentos esgrimidos resultan ser completamente independientes de si las leyes de la naturaleza son probabilísticas o deterministas: el mundo es no-productivo y estático o productivamente dinámico, sea el futuro ‘abierto’ o no.
...-89 Metaphysics of laws and ontology of time 87 Still, there is the ... laws of nature and the ontology of time is a rather under ... relation between the disposition and its manifestation is merely a ...
3. The Monist: Volume > 74 > Issue: 2
Tom Rockmore Subjectivity and the Ontology of History
... knowledge. There is an obvious difference between history, the writing of history or the ... the level of the species. This is the specific difference between human being and ... tantalizing hints. In his discussions of morality and history, there is a dualism between ...
4. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume > 24 > Issue: 1/2
Mithun Bantwal Rao Philosophy of Technology in the Anthropocene avant la lettre
... gestalt of the worker which “is not there and still has to come” (6), that ... of technology, as the title of the book suggests. Put differently, there is a ... need to be couched in terms of the distinction between metaphysics and ...
5. The Monist: Volume > 96 > Issue: 1
Roberta De Monticelli Constitution and Unity: Lynne Baker and the Unitarian Tradition
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Lynne Baker’s Constitution Theory seems to be the farthest-reaching and yet the most subtly elaborated antireductive metaphysics available today. Its original theoretical contribution is a nonmereological theory of material constitution, which yet has a place for classical and Lewisian mereology (this formalized version of Materialism). Constitution Theory hence apparently (i) complies with modern natural science, and yet (ii) rescues the concrete everyday world, and ourselvesin it, from ontological vanity or nothingness, and (iii) does it by avoiding dualism. Why, then, does it meet so many opponents—or rather, why are its many opponents so stubbornly resisting the very idea of constitution, in Baker’s form? One of the most resisted claims is (iii). Is unity without identity—the feature distinguishing the relation between constituting and constituted things—the only nondualist way to oppose reductionism? What would be the price to pay for unity with identity—without reduction? What I (jokingly) call the Unitarian Tradition, going back to Plato, keeps working out the original Platonic way of constructing acomplex object as a Unity comprising a Collection, as opposed to the Aristotelian suggestion of opposing Collections and Substances. For once you have split things apart ontologically, unifying them again may prove a very hard task.
... is there a significant difference between the two, and which ... : For all the x 1 . . . x n , there is a w which is the sum of x 1 ... body. (In Lewisian terms, there is a world at which a counterpart of the ...
6. The Monist: Volume > 47 > Issue: 2
Charles Hartshorne Present Prospects for Metaphysics
... even more helpless. A metaphysics of becoming and relativity is the modern ... , however, there is a vast difference be tween animals, plants, and the minerals in ... its place in the time series. If B follows (and thus is relative to) A, and C ...
7. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Hyundeuk Cheon Meta-incommensurability Revisited
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A popular rejoinder to the potential threat that incommensurability might pose to scientific realism has been the referential response: despite meaning variance, there can be referential continuity, which is sufficient for rational theory choice. This response has been charged with meta-incommensurability, according to which it begs the question by assuming a realist metaphysics. However, realists take it to be a rhetorical device that hinders productive discussion. By reconstructing the debate, this paper aims to demonstrate two things. First, there are unexpected commonalities between realists and non-realists, meaning that the charge of meta-incommensurability is more or less exaggerated. Second, meta-incommensurability, which is to be found in the ways to make sense of referential overlap at the token level, still plays a role in the realism debate.Una réplica habitual a la amenaza potencial que la inconmensurabilidad podría representar para el realismo científico ha sido la respuesta referencial: a pesar de la variación de significado puede haber continuidad referencial, lo que basta para la elección racional de teoría. A esta respuesta se la ha acusado de metainconmensurabilidad, de acuerdo con lo cual caería en petición de principio al asumir una metafísica realista. Sin embargo, los realistas consideran esta acusación un recurso retórico que impide una discusión productiva. Mediante la reconstrucción del debate, este artículo pretende demostrar dos cosas. En primer lugar, que existen inesperados puntos en común entre realistas y no realistas, lo que significa que la acusación de meta-inconmensurabilidad es en alguna medida exagerada. En segundo lugar, que la inconmensurabilidad, que se puede encontrar en las formas de dar sentido a la coincidencia referencial en el nivel del ejemplar (token), aún cumple una función en el debate sobre el realismo.
..., it is very unlikely that B and D provide a good explanation of phenomena such ... notion, which means that there is a clear distinction between the ... is adopted in Sankey (2008, 2009b). See the section 6 for a further treatment of ...
8. The Monist: Volume > 83 > Issue: 1
Johanna Seibt Constitution Theory and Metaphysical Neutrality: A Lesson for Ontology?
... structuralization appears entirely too liberal. There is a clear difference between (a) the ... -verifiable and (b) nonsensical in various senses of this term. In the Aufbau the stress is on ... ) and the connection between (2b) and (2a), in each case the argument rests on ...
9. The Monist: Volume > 82 > Issue: 2
Karen Green A Plague on Both Your Houses
... only through the logos, and is nothing outside of it, the difference between being ... be a difference in essence between the perception of speaking and the imaginative ... endures. Something is the same both throughout the life of a tree and between ...
10. The Monist: Volume > 64 > Issue: 4
Mark B. Okrent The Truth of Being and the History of Philosophy
... sense of being in the temporal now. There is a presence of ‘past’ and ‘future ... deny. Although there is a correlation between an epoch of Being and a positive ... difference between Rorty and Heidegger. There is indeed such a difference. But Rorty has ...
11. The Monist: Volume > 72 > Issue: 4
Rex Martin Collingwood’s Claim that Metaphysics is a Historical Discipline
...), as a single, self-consistent view of the nature both of metaphysics and of ... ’s account of metaphysics is simply off point as regards re-enactment and that the ... here is that actions typically occur in a context of states of affairs and that the ...
12. The Monist: Volume > 65 > Issue: 3
Laurence Goldstein The Adverbial Theory of Conceptual Thought
... words, there is a category difference between statements and sentences. The word ... relation between a speaker and one such sentence. There is a case for saying that the ... in his paper “Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person.” It would be desirable ...
13. The Monist: Volume > 30 > Issue: 4
James Lindsay The Logic and Metaphysics of Occam
...THE LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS OF OCCAM. "[HE following paper is concerned with ... . OCCAM'S LOGIC. There is no need for me to give an account of the rise and ... . 338. TIlE LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS OF OCCAM. 52 7 the statement that "a trained ...
14. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science: Volume > 8 > Issue: 1
Michael Otte Two Principles of Leibniz’s Philosophy in Relation to the History of Mathematics
... there is no part of them “that is not itself again a space or a time” (A 169/B 211 ... conclusion with respect to the question of how the relation between PI and PII is to be ... that there is a deeper connection between nonstandard analysis and Leibniz ...
15. The Monist: Volume > 39 > Issue: 4
Charles Hartshorne Continuity, the Form of Forms, in Charles Peirce
... in, a con tinuous series of possible intermediaries between the two. Red and ... intermediaries would be a "difference of kind" only, and not "of degree." But the idea of ... philosophy of Peirce. 5. Experience: The probletn of the datum. There is a crying ...
16. The Monist: Volume > 59 > Issue: 4
Charles Hartshorne Mysticism and Rationalistic Metaphysics
... absolute a difference as that between the presence and the sheer absence of That ... a direct datum, is accepted, then from this and most definitions of the divine ... remote analogy for the difference between the mystic and the rest of us. Another ...
17. The Monist: Volume > 78 > Issue: 3
Alex Rosenberg The Metaphysics of Microeconomics
... most one of degree. The difference between metaphysics and theory is one of ... theory of the relation between brain states and mental states. There is another ... to be or vice versa or the agent is perfectly indifferent between a and b. From a ...
18. The Monist: Volume > 62 > Issue: 1
Leonardo Tarán Perpetual Duration and Atemporal Eternity in Parmenides and Plato
... is said that the present refers to time, is a measure of process, and presupposes ... essential difference between the position of Parmenides as reconstructed by Owen and ... and future cannot be predicated of the ideas, “there is no evidence to suggest ...
19. Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Stathis Psillos Regularities, Natural Patterns and Laws of Nature
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The goal of this paper is to outline and defend an empiricist metaphysics of laws of nature. The key empiricist idea is that there are regularities without regularity-enforcers. Differently put, there are natural laws without law-makers of a distinct metaphysical kind. This outline relies on the concept of a ‘natural pattern’ and more significantly on the existence of a network of natural patterns in nature. The relation between a regularity and a pattern will be analysed in terms of mereology. Here is the road map. In section 2, I briefly discuss the relation between empiricism and metaphysics, aiming to show that an empiricist metaphysics is possible. In section 3, I offer arguments against stronger metaphysical views of laws. Then, in section 4, I motivate nomic objectivism. In section 5, I address the question ‘what is a regularity?’ and develop a novel answer to it, based on the notion of a pattern. In section 6, I analyse the notion of pattern and in section 7 I raise the question: ‘what is a law of nature?’, the answer to which is: a law of nature is a regularity that is characterised by the unity of a natural pattern.El objetivo de este artículo es plantear y defender una metafísica empirista sobre las leyes de la naturaleza. La idea empirista clave es que hay regularidades sin que se requiera la existencia de algo que haga que se mantengan como tales (regularity-enforcers). Dicho de otro modo, hay leyes naturales sin que lo que produce la ley (law-maker) pertenezca a una categoría metafísica diferente. Este plan se apoya en el concepto de “esquema natural” (natural pattern) y en la existencia de una red de esquemas naturales en la naturaleza. La relación entre una regularidad y un esquema se analizará en términos mereológicos. Explico la ruta que seguiré. En la sección 2 discuto brevemente la relación entre empirismo y metafísica con objeto de mostrar que una metafísica empirista es posible. En la sección 3 doy argumentos contra concepciones de las leyes más metafísicas. Después, en la sección 4, apoyo el objetivismo nómico. En la 5 abordo la pregunta ‘¿qué es una regularidad?’ y desarrollo una respuesta novedosa, basada en la noción de esquema. En la sección 6 analizo la noción de esquema y en la 7 planteo la cuestión ‘¿qué es una ley de la naturaleza?’, cuya respuesta es: una ley de la naturaleza es una regularidad que se caracteriza por la unidad de un esquema natural.
... “principles of objective necessitation”. He thought there was a difference between the ... The goal of this paper is to outline and defend an empiricist metaphysics of ... . The relation between a regularity and a pattern will be analysed in terms of ...
20. The Monist: Volume > 74 > Issue: 4
Owen Goldin Heraclitean Satiety and Aristotelian Actuality
... that at the root of the self-destruction of soul is a hunger or need, and DK B 77 ... , where the moistening of souls is called a delight, and DK B 29, where οἱπολλοί are ... general metaphysics of change. All change for Aristotle is the actualization of a ...