Desideratum 1: The'might'in Open Future cannot be merely epistemic. The open future theorist is not making the simple and uncontroversial point that for all we know such-and …
T Dougherty - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
You are morally permitted to save your friend at the expense of a few strangers, but not at the expense of very many. However, there seems no number of strangers that marks a …
Pretty much everyone agrees that we can visually experience something's color, shape, size, and location properties. For example, in having a visual experience of a banana, I …
V Hoffmann-Kolss - Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this paper is to argue that there is indeterminacy in causation. I present three types of cases in which it is indeterminate whether an event c caused another event e:(1) …
Most of our best scientific descriptions of the world employ rates of change of some continuous quantity with respect to some other continuous quantity. For instance, in classical …
Modal Idealism Page 1 1 Modal Idealism David Builes Draft - Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind 1. Introduction According to some philosophers, consciousness has a …
B Eva - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a number of authors have defended the coherence and philosophical utility of the notion of metaphysical indeterminacy. Concurrently, the idea that reality can be …
In this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline an …
Especially over the past twenty years, a number of analytic philosophers have embraced the idea that the world itself is vague or indeterminate in one or more respects. The issue then …