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Enhanced but Indeterminate? How Attention Colors our World
Attention makes things look brighter and more colorful. In light of these effects, representationalist philosophers propose that attentive...
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Emotions as indeterminate justifiers
Sentimentalists believe that values are crucially dependent on emotions. Epistemic sentimentalists subscribe to what I call the final-court-of-appeal...
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The indeterminate present and the open future
Explanations of the genuine openness of the future often appeal to objective indeterminacy. According to the received view, such indeterminacy is...
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Self-Awareness in Nishida as Auto-Realization qua Determination of the Indeterminate
This chapter tracks the development of the concept of self-awareness (jikaku, 自覚) in the thought of the Japanese modern philosopher Nishida Kitarō...
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Future Ontology: Indeterminate Existence or Non-existence?
The Growing Block Theory of time says that the metaphysical openness of the future should be understood in terms of there not being any future...
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Visual experience in the predictive brain is univocal, but indeterminate
Among the exciting prospects raised by advocates of predictive processing [PP] is the offer of a systematic description of our neural activity...
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Subjective causal networks and indeterminate suppositional credences
This paper has two main parts. In the first part, we motivate a kind of indeterminate, suppositional credences by discussing the prospect for a...
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Indeterminate Interests: Comments on Justin Remhof’s Nietzsche’s Constructivism
In his book Nietzsche’s Constructivism: A Metaphysics of Material Objects Justin Remhof defends, using resources from Nietzsche’s thought, the...
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Attributing Meanings to “Science”, “Faith”, and “Society”
Michael Polanyi’s use of Gestalt as his model for acts of knowing and his ideal of performative consistency are two reasons why his mature theory of...
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Alienation and Attunement in the Zhuangzi
In this study, I clarify and defend the critique of the ‘sages’ and ‘robbers’ that is found in the Zhuangzi . As detailed in Chapter 8 of the Zhuangzi ,...
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Parfitian or Buddhist reductionism? Revisiting a debate about personal identity
Derek Parfit influentially defends reductionism about persons, the view that a person’s existence just consists in the existence of a brain and body...
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Three sources of social indeterminacy
Social ontologists commonly think that our ideas about social entities, and about other people also inhabiting the social realm, play an important...
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Contingentism and paraphrase
One important challenge for contingentists is that they seem to be unable to account for the meaning of some apparently meaningful modal discourse...
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Exploratory modeling and indeterminacy in the search for life
The aim of this article is to use a model from the origin of life studies to provide some depth and detail to our understanding of exploratory models...
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Borderline consciousness, when it’s neither determinately true nor determinately false that experience is present
This article defends the existence of borderline consciousness. In borderline consciousness, conscious experience is neither determinately present...
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Recollecting Plato in Nishida
This essay explores the hypothesis that Plato plays a more significant role in the late philosophy of Nishida Kitarō than is typically acknowledged....
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Many-valued Semantics and Modal Logics: Essays in Honour of Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev
This volume is a collection of essays related to the work of Professor Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev, a distinguished Russian logician and philosopher...
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Death by Redescription
It is intuitive to suppose that the question of whether I persist through a given period will always have a metaphysically substantive ‘yes’ or ‘no’...
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Belief and rational indeterminacy
This paper is about an anti-expertise paradox that arises because of self-referential sentences like: (*) = I do not believe that (*) is true. The...
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The impurity of praxis: Arendt and Agamben
If politics is understood as a foundational and open-ended activity, a general problem that arises from such a framing concerns the question of how...