Essays in Philosophy

Review of "Inference and the Metaphysics of Reason: An Onto- Epistemological Critique"

Nikolay Milkov — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:32 PST

Review of "Social Theory of Fear: Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World"

Maximiliano E. Korstanje — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:32 PST

Review of "Althusser el Infinito Adios"

Maximiliano E. Korstanje — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:31 PST

Review of "Paul Ricoeur's Pedagogy of Pardon: A Narrative Theory of Memory and Forgetting"

Solomon Davis — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:30 PST

Review of "Dignity: Its History and Meaning"

Russell DiSilvestro — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:29 PST

Review of "When Words are Called For"

Jeff Johnson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:28 PST

Review of "The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty"

Dana S. Belu — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:27 PST

Review of "Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will"

William Simkulet — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:25 PST

Review of "Democracy and Moral Conflict"

Steven Ross — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:24 PST

Review of "Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy"

Hoyt Edge — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:23 PST

Review of "Science in a Democratic Society"

Peter H. Denton — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:22 PST

Review of "On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volumes 1 and 2."

Taylor Worley — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:21 PST

Review of "Human Nature"

Donald Abel — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:20 PST

Object-Dependence

Avram Hiller — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:20 PST

There has been much work on ontological dependence in recent literature. However, relatively little of it has been dedicated to the ways in which individual physical objects may depend on other distinct, non-overlapping objects. This paper gives several examples of such object-dependence and distinguishes between different types of it. The paper also introduces and refines the notion of an n-tet. N-tets (typically) occur when there are object-dependence relations between n objects. I claim that the identity (or, rather, what I call the n-dentity) conditions for n-tets are not grounded in the individual identity conditions of each of the n objects, but instead are metaphysically basic. The paper then briefly discusses some ramifications of accepting object-dependence (and n-tets) on the philosophy of biology, ethics, and logic.

On Some Counterexamples to the Transitivity of Grounding

Jon Erling Litland — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:19 PST

I discuss three recent counterexamples to the transitivity of grounding due to Jonathan Schaffer. I argue that the counterexamples don’t work and draw some conclusions about the relationship between grounding and explanation.

What is Weak Ground?

Louis deRosset — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:18 PST

Kit Fine, in "The Pure Logic of Ground", has made a seminal attempt at formalizing the notion of ground. Fine ties the formal treatment of grounding to the notion of a weak ground. Formalization of this sort is supposed to bring clarity and precision to our theorizing. Unfortunately, as I will argue, it's not clear what weak ground is. I review five alternative explanations of the idea, and argue that none of them are ultimately satisfactory. I close by outlining a more complicated explanation of the notion that turns out to be more satisfactory.

Grounding Relation(s): Introduction

Paul Hovda et al. — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:17 PST

Review of "Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There A Right To Exclude?"

Steven Ross — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:18:14 PDT

Review of "Life and Action"

Colin Patrick — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:18:12 PDT

Review of "A diez años del 11 de Septiembre: Como cambió el mundo (9/11 Ten years ago: how the World changed)"

Maximiliano E. Korstanje — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:18:10 PDT