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Existence as Possibility
This chapter serves as a general introduction on the themes of freedom, choice, and responsibility in their philosophical formulation. Special...
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A hyperintensional approach to positive epistemic possibility
The received view says that possibility is the dual of necessity: a proposition is (metaphysically, logically, epistemically etc.) possible iff it is...
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Preserving Possibility
This chapter exposes the philosophical elements of relational biology, related to the concept of space. In particular, the concepts of singularity of...
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Rational belief, epistemic possibility, and the a priori
In this paper, I discuss Whiting’s (
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Transcendental Phenomenology as Human Possibility Husserl and Fink on the Phenomenologizing Subject
This book focuses on Edmund Husserl’s philosophical collaboration with Eugen Fink which took place in the early 1930s, and shows how their...
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Fine on the Possibility of Vagueness
In his paper ‘The possibility of vagueness’ (Fine in Synthese 194(10):3699–3725, 2017), Kit Fine proposes a new logic of vagueness, CL, that promises...
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Ignorance and (Im)Possibility
This chapter is dedicated to an exploration of the connections between ignorance, possibility, and impossibility. While traditionally studies of...
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A Picture of Agentive Possibility
The previous chapters have defended a general account of agentive possibility, one on which the idea of an option is fundamental. Contemporary...
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Consistency, possibility, and Gödel: a reply to Pruss
Alexander Pruss has given a quick argument against the claim that consistency is possibility using Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem. The...
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No Such Thing as Containment? Gene Drives for Conservation and the (Im)possibility of an Island
This article explores the use of islands as tools of geographical and intellectual containment - or what we call “islanding” - in the scientific and...
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Moral Learning by Algorithms: The Possibility of Develo** Morally Intelligent Technology
The aim of this chapter is to explore the possibility of moral machine learningMoral machine learning (MML) and its possible alternatives. We begin...
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Possibility Precedes Actuality
This paper is inspired by and develops on E. J. Lowe’s work, who writes in his book The Possibility of Metaphysics that ‘metaphysical possibility is...
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Possibility and Dyadic Contingency
The paper aims at develo** the idea that the standard operator of noncontingency, usually symbolized by Δ, is a special case of a more general...
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How to Make Possibility Safe for Empiricists
What is possible, according to the empiricist conception, is what our evidence positively allows; and what is necessary is what it compels. These...
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Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge
Recently, interest has surged in similarity-based epistemologies of possibility. However, it has been pointed out that the notion of ‘relevant...
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The possibility of undistinguishedness
It is natural to assume that every value bearer must be good, bad, or neutral. This paper argues that this assumption is false if value...
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Ethics in the Tractatus: A Condition of the Possibility of Meaning?
My aim in this chapter is to explore an analogy between logic and ethics, as Wittgenstein understands them in the Tractatus. First, I argue that...
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Introduction: Occasions for Reflection on Political Possibility
The introduction to this volume explains that the various chapters brought together here explore the space between political reality and the...
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On Clinical Possibility
Possibility is one of the most common modalities in reasoning and argumentation. Philosophical and logical discussions of the metaphysics of modality...