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Quantifying Over Indiscernibles
One of the main criticisms of the theory of collections of indiscernible objects is that once we quantify over one of them, we are quantifying over...
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On making a difference: towards a minimally non-trivial version of the identity of indiscernibles
The identity of indiscernibles (PII) states that indiscernible objects must be identical. Many philosophers have held that the PII turns out to be...
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Why I am not an Anti-Haecceitist
In this paper I argue that if the Identity of Indiscernibles is not necessarily true, then Haecceitism ensues—where Haecceitism is the view that...
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A Panenmentalist Reconsideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles
If we consider any two entities (such as the two spheres in Max Black’s well-known thought-experiment) as individual possibilities, pure or actual,...
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The Becoming of Identity: A Process-Ontological View on the Relational Co-existence of Biological Beings
A fundamental issue when thinking about the agency of organisms is the question of their identity. How could we talk of a biological being’s ongoing...
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Countability and self-identity
The Received View of particles in quantum mechanics is that they are indistinguishable entities within their kinds and that, as a consequence, they...
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Your red isn't my red! Connectionist Structuralism and the puzzle of abstract objects
This paper presents a nine step argument for “Connectionist Structuralism” (CS), a physical nominalist position that takes seriously the non-physical...
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Nothing but Gold: Complexities in terms of Non-difference and Identity. Part 2. Contrasting Equivalence, Equality, Identity, and Non-difference
The present paper is a continuation of a previous one by the same title, the content of which faced the issue concerning the relations of coreference...
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A Phenomenology of Identity: QBism and Quantum (Non-)Particles
Décio Krause has achieved a thorough reconstruction of logic and set theory, to account for the unusual objects or quasi-objects of quantum physics....
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Nothing but Gold. Complexities in Terms of Non-difference and Identity. Part 3. Permanence, Properties Plexuses and Subtleties in Mutual Exclusion
This paper investigates Vācaspati Miśra’s remarkably complex argumentative architecture in support of non-difference by means of a microsimulation...
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The Parthood of Indiscernibles
In the following work we propose to incorporate the main feature of quantum mechanics, i.e., the concept of indiscernibility. To achieve this goal,...
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Synchronic and diachronic identity for elementary particles
The main focus of this paper is on the notion of transtemporal (diachronic) identity applied to quantum particles. I pose the question of how the...
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“Do identity and distinctness facts threaten the PSR?”
One conception of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) maintains that every fact is metaphysically explained. There are different ways to...
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Non-reflexive Logics and Their Metaphysics: A Critical Appraisal
Non-reflexive logics are systems of logic in which the reflexive law of identity is restricted or violated. The most well-known of such systems are...
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Identity
The notion of identity is common in everyday speech and plays an important role many disciplines. Many support its apparent simplicity. David Lewis,...
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The Problem of Truth in Quantum Mechanics
There is a large literature on the issue of the lack of properties (i.e. accidents) in quantum mechanics (the problem of “hidden variables”) and also...
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Quantum pointillism with relational identity
The feasibility of establishing a proper notion of a distinguishable object in the context of the de Broglie–Bohm approach to quantum mechanics...
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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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An argument against nominalism
Nominalism in formal ontology is still the thesis that the only acceptable domain of quantification is the first-order domain of particulars....