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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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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
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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
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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
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2021-01-26
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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
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2021-01-26
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Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience. It investigates the detailed metaphysics of the colors, shapes, and other concrete properties present in our experience of ordinary concrete objects, and also of their spatial and temporal relations....
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-11
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Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience. It investigates the detailed metaphysics of the colors, shapes, and other concrete properties present in our experience of ordinary concrete objects, and also of their spatial and temporal relations....
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-11
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-21
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Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-21
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W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-10-22
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How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones?How can we find solace in our own death? When philosopher Joshua Glasgow's mother was diagnosed with cancer, he struggled to answer these questions for her and for himself. Though death and immortality...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-06
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This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-03
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This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-03
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?
This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-27
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What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?
This book articulates and defends an original answer to this important, insufficiently understood question through the novel position of substantival structuralism. This position argues that...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-27
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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-08
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