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Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore....
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Inconsistent metaphysical dependence: cases from the Kyoto School
Even though metaphysical dependence has been a subject of a lively debate in contemporary metaphysics, it is rare in such a debate to seriously...
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No foundations for metaphysical coherentism
Recently, metaphysical coherentism has been propounded as an alternative to metaphysical foundationalism and infinitism. The view replaces the...
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Metaphysical foundationalism, heterarchical structure, and Huayan interdependence
Standard views about metaphysical structure presume that if metaphysical structure is hierarchical, any priority ordering of individuals is rigid or...
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Metaphysical Causal Pluralism: What Are New Mechanists Pluralistic About?
Although the literature on the issue of pluralism within the philosophy of science is very extensive, this paper focuses on the metaphysical causal...
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Metaphysical Status of Money and Sustainable Organizations and Ecosystems
The current economic and societal production system gives money a magnified importance, overlooking other essential flows necessary for human...
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Metaphysical explanation and the cosmological argument
A premise of the Leibnizian cosmological argument from contingency says that no contingent fact can explain why there are any contingent facts at...
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Metaphysical foundherentism
I propose a way to accommodate plausible examples of cyclic grounding chains that have been proposed in the literature while preserving a good...
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Metaphysical laws and the directionality of grounding
Grounding is meant to be a metaphysically explanatory relation of non-causal constitutive determination. Recently there has been significant interest...
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Metaphysical Orientation
“Metaphysical Orientation” identifies the central features of Dewey’s metaphysical program and places his conception of nature into a larger cultural...
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Plumbing metaphysical explanatory depth
Recent years have seen increasing interest in interventionist analyses of metaphysical explanation. One area where interventionism traditionally...
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Metaphysical Reading(s) of TLP
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ( TLP ) turns hundred years of its publication in the year 2021. The book has received several interpretations during...
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Quineanism, Noneism and Metaphysical Equivalence
In this paper we propose and defend the Synonymy account , a novel account of metaphysical equivalence which draws on the idea (Rayo in The...
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The metaphysical neutrality of cognitive science
Progress in psychology and the cognitive sciences is often taken to vindicate physicalism and cast doubt on such extravagant metaphysical theses as...
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From Altered States to Metaphysics: The Epistemic Status of Psychedelic-induced Metaphysical Beliefs
Psychedelic substances elicit powerful, uncanny conscious experiences that are thought to possess therapeutic value. In those who undergo them, these...
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The metaphysical burden of Millianism
The Millian semantic view of names relies on a metaphysical view of names—often given the label ‘common currency conception’ (‘CCC’)—on which the...
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Varieties of Metaphysical Coherentism
According to metaphysical coherentism, grounding relations form an interconnected system in which things ground each other and nothing is ungrounded....
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Metaphysical Hypotheses
This chapter applies the content/world barrier to more substantive debates in analytic philosophy, including to normative, modal, epistemic, and...
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An epistemic distinction among essences, its metaphysical ground, and the role of philosophy
Uniformism is the view that one and the same epistemology should apply for all modal knowledge. I argue that, whether or not all modal knowledge can...
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The Metaphysical Anthropology of Julián Marías
This chapter offers a detailed account of Julián Marías’s Metaphysical Anthropology. It begins with a short introduction pointing out that his...