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View article: What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths?
What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths? Open
Journal Article What is the Source of Our Knowledge of Modal Truths? Get access E. J. Lowe E. J. Lowe Durham University [email protected] [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mi…
View article: General Index
General Index Open
commissurotomy ('split-brain') patients 121, 130 composite objects (see also parts) 55, 56, 88-9, 92-103 concepts 51-5 concrete entities/objects 1, 37, 62 conjoined twins 109-10, 130 conscious states 127-9, 133-6 consciousness 114, 126-30 …
View article: Review of The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' edited by Lex Newman
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' edited by Lex Newman Open
This is a very welcome addition to the currently burgeoning stock of multi-authored works on Locke’s philosophy in general, distinguished by its concentration on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding in particular. Readers will fi…
View article: A problem for a posteriori essentialism concerning natural kinds
A problem for a posteriori essentialism concerning natural kinds Open
There is a widespread assumption that the classical work in philosophical semantics of Saul Kripke (1980) and Hilary Putnam (1975) has taught us that the essences of natural kinds of substances, such as water and gold, are discoverable onl…
View article: Identity, Individuality, and Unity
Identity, Individuality, and Unity Open
Locke notoriously included number amongst the primary qualities of bodies and was roundly criticized for doing so by Berkeley. Frege echoed some of Berkeley's criticisms in attacking the idea that ‘Number is a property of external things’,…
View article: Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument
Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument Open
Journal Article Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument Get access E. J. Lowe E. J. Lowe University of Durham50 Old Elvet Durham DH1 3HN, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
View article: Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism
Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism Open
Causal closure arguments against interactionist dualism are currently popular amongst physicalists. Such an argument appeals to some principles of the causal closure of the physical, together with certain other premises, to conclude that a…
View article: A simplification of the logic of conditionals.
A simplification of the logic of conditionals. Open
In this paper I aim to show how the conditional connectives in nonmaterial conditional sentences may be defined in terms of truth-functional operators and monadic modal operators ('D' and '0'), thus reducing the logic of such conditionals …