Most contemporary analytic metaphysicians are committed, either explicitly or by implication, to the thesis that ordinary material things, such as trees, houses, mountains, the bodies of persons, their brains, etc., do not exist. Tracing this surprising thesis to a commitment to Galilean Physicalism - physicalism about the external world - this study defends the common sense ontology - an ontology of material things.
Most contemporary analytic metaphysicians are committed, either explicitly or by implication, to the thesis that ordinary material things, such as tre...
This monograph defends the traditional, Aristotelian account of causality uses this account to critique the various forms of determinism - mechanism, fatalism, and predestinarianism - that have been thought by many philosophers to be inconsistent with the possibility of genuine free will.
This monograph defends the traditional, Aristotelian account of causality uses this account to critique the various forms of determinism - mechanism, ...
Subtitled -An Introduction to Material Modal Logic, - this monograph explores modal logic from a realist perspective on possibility that, following Aristotle and Kant, grounds possibility in actuality and thus provides a material, rather than merely formal, interpretation of basic modal notions. It then applies this material modal logic to the understanding of contingent being and the existence of a necessary being serving as -the ground of all possibility.-
Subtitled -An Introduction to Material Modal Logic, - this monograph explores modal logic from a realist perspective on possibility that, following Ar...
