Grounding is not causation

S Bernstein - Philosophical Perspectives, 2016 - JSTOR
Grounding is not causation, and is not like causation, contra its contemporary characterizers.
Apparent similarities between causation and grounding are mostly superficial, and utilizing …

Moral vagueness is ontic vagueness

M Schoenfield - Ethics, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
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[PDF][PDF] Transformative choice: Discussion and replies

LA Paul - Res Philosophica, 2015 - lapaul.org
In “What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting,” I argue that, if you don't know what it's
like to be a parent, you cannot make this decision rationally—at least, not if your decision is …

The metaphysics of gender is (relatively) substantial

K Richardson - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
According to Sider, a question is metaphysically substantive just in case it has a single most
natural answer. Recently, Barnes and Mikkola have argued that, given this notion of …

[图书][B] Indeterminacy in the World

A Torza - 2023 - cambridge.org
The way we represent the world in thought and language is shot through with indeterminacy:
we speak of red apples and yellow apples without thereby committing to any sharp cutoff …

Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics

D Glick, B Le Bihan - European journal for philosophy of science, 2024 - Springer
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of
metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore. Metaphysical indeterminacy has …

Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW

C Mariani - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mass Density approach to GRW (GRW M for short) has been widely discussed
in the quantum foundations literature. A crucial feature of GRW M is the introduction of a …

How is the asymmetry between the open future and the fixed past to be characterized?

V Grandjean - The Asymmetric Nature of Time: Accounting for the …, 2022 - Springer
A basic intuition we have regarding the nature of time is that the future is open whereas the
past is fixed. However, although this intuition is largely shared, it is not a straightforward …

Derivative indeterminacy

K Richardson - Erkenntnis, 2023 - Springer
Indeterminacy is metaphysical (or worldly) if it has its source in the way the world is (rather
than how it is represented or known). There are two questions we could ask about …

Indeterminacy: Deep but not rock bottom

C Mariani - Analytic Philosophy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Barnes (2014, Analytic Philosophy, 55, 339) has argued on this journal for the
following conditional: If there is any metaphysical indeterminacy, this must be at the most …