Metaphysics
Mostrando 25-36 de 162 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. THE METAPHYSICS OF RESPONSIBLE BELIEVING
Abstract Contemporary philosophy of mind has tended to make the believer disappear. In response, Matt Boyle and Pamela Hieronymi have argued that believing is an act or activity, not a mental state. I argue that this response fails to fully critique contemporary accounts of believing. Such accounts assume that (i) states of believing are particulars; (ii) wi
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 21/09/2018
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26. Kyrieuon logos: Diodoro Crono y el problema del determinismo a la luz de Metafísica IX, 31
Abstract: This paper aims to reconstruct and analyze the Master Argument (kyrieuon logos) attributed to Diodorus Chronus under the perspective of Aristotle's criticism of extreme actualism in Metaphysics IX. 3. From this point of view, the paper locates Diodorus' theoretical project within the framework of his philosophical dispute with Aristotle's metaphysi
Trans/Form/Ação. Publicado em: 2018-03
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27. Globally and locally applied naturalistic metaphysics
ABSTRACT This article addresses the prospects of applied naturalistic metaphysics from both a global and a local perspective. Adopting a broad Sellarsian approach, I look into whether metaphysics has a place and role in the overall scientific image and assess whether it has its own subject matter as a first- or second- order discipline. After outlining the g
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2017-09
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28. Leibniz on the existence of atoms
ABSTRACT In this paper I present and evaluate Leibniz’s two main arguments against the existence of atoms. In this context atoms are extended particles that are absolutely hard, homogeneous, indivisible, and indestructible by natural means. As we shall see, Leibniz’s arguments are flawed in a very instructive way. The first argument is in tension with th
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2017-06
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29. Temporal Experience and Metaphysics
ABSTRACT The well-known phenomenological argument draws metaphysical conclusions about time, specifically about change through time and the resulting passage or flow of time, from our temporal experience. The argument begins with the phenomenological premise that there is a class of properties which underlies our experience of time and change through time, a
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2017-03
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30. What Is Time?
ABSTRACT In this paper, I answer the question of what time is. First, however, I consider why one might ask this question and what exactly it is asking. The latter consideration reveals that in order to answer the question, one must first engage in a more basic investigation of what a thing, anything at all, is. Such radical investigation requires a special
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2017-03
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31. Screen Present and Fictional Present
ABSTRACT I intend in this paper to explore the possible consequences for our understanding of fiction of a particular view of the nature of time, namely the hypothesis of the open future. The kind of fiction we will particularly concerned with is film, which provides a convenient way of focusing the general issue I want to raise here. The issue could also be
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2016-12
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32. Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Time: an Introduction to Time and Reality I
ABSTRACT This essay is an introduction to Time and Reality I, the first part of a special issue dedicated to the philosophy of time. Here I outline a number of new trends in philosophical theorizing about time, detailing how the various contributions fit into the picture. I argue that there has been a potentially misleading tendency to separate the debate ov
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2016-12
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33. La Distracción de Sí. Jacques Derrida y la Auto-Afección
In this paper we try to understand the status and the path followed by the concept of self-affection in the thought of Jacques Derrida. This concept is developed based on an interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s
Kant and the problem of Metaphysics . In the elaboration of the concept, Derrida emphasizes the moment of distance in which theTrans/Form/Ação. Publicado em: 2015
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34. La classificazione aristotelica delle scienze in Pietro d'Abano
Peter of Abano's classification of the sciences is an interesting reformulation of the analogous classification proposed by Aristotle in Metaphysics VI, and of Aristotle's theory of the dianoetic habits found in Nichomachean Ethics VI. As apparent in the Conciliator for medicine and in the Lucidator for astronomy, Peter follows the Aristotelian classificatio
Trans/Form/Ação. Publicado em: 2014-12
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35. "Schlechthin nothwendiges wesen": en marge de la quatrieme antinomie
The challenge of the antinomies plays a decisive role in the development of Kantian thought. This becomes particularly significant with reference to the absolutely necessary Being, which should exceed the phenomenal domain even when, as Kant says in the fourth antinomy, it is considered as a part of the world. In the structure of the antinomies we are pushed
Trans/Form/Ação. Publicado em: 2014-12
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36. Carnap and Kuhn on linguistic frameworks and scientific revolutions
Several recent works in history and philosophy of science have re-evaluated the alleged opposition between the theses put forth by logical empiricists such as Carnap and the so-called "post-positivists", such as Kuhn. Although the latter came to be viewed as having seriously challenged the logical positivist views of science, recent authors (e.g., Friedman,
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2013-06