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A Philosophy of Mass Art
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 614–617.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Dominic M. McIver Lopes A PHILOSOPHY OF MASS ART. By Noël Carroll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 425. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS
particular critical denunciations, sometimes aimed at whole genres, seem
to me ill judged. I...
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Diachronic Dutch Book Arguments
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Anna Mahtani The Reflection Principle can be defended with a Diachronic Dutch Book Argument (DBA), but it is also defeated by numerous compelling counter-examples. It seems then that Diachronic DBAs can lead us astray. Should we reject them en masse—including Lewis’s Diachronic DBA...
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Truth and the Absence of Fact
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 602–604.
Published: 01 October 2002
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ton referring to when he used the word ‘mass’? For the notion of mass in New-
tonian mechanics has two counterparts in post-Newtonian mechanics,
relativistic mass and proper mass, and there seems no good reason to take New-
ton to have been referring to either of these rather than the other...
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Kant's Construction of Nature
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 342–354.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Foundations …is to explain how the application of pure mathematics to the empirical concepts of mathematical physics becomes possible” (88). Kant's goal is to explain, concept by concept, how the fundamental concepts of Newtonian physics—for example, duration , mass , velocity , and force— come...
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How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill Its Causal Role?
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 433–468.
Published: 01 October 2005
... -67. Emerson, William. 1768 . The Doctrine of Fluxions . 3d ed. London: Robinson and Roberts. Feynman, Richard, Robert Leighton, and Matthew Sands. 1963 . The Feynman Lectures on Physics . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Foster, John. 1982 . The Case for Idealism . London: Routledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 293–302.
Published: 01 April 2004
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Libertarian Accounts of Free Will. By Randolph Clarke. New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 244.
Social Justice. Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. By Matthew Clayton and
Andrew Williams, editors. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp.
ix, 325.
Philosophies of Space and Time...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 425–431.
Published: 01 July 2005
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Atkins, editor. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xi, 317.
Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge. By Dorit Bar-On. New York:
Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 449.
Walter Benjamin and Art. By Andrew Benjamin, editor. New York: Continuum,
2005. Pp...
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The Aesthetics of Music
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 608–614.
Published: 01 October 2000
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University of Maryland
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2000)
A PHILOSOPHY OF MASS ART By NOEL CARROLL.Oxford: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 425.
The chief sources of aesthetic experience for most people around the
world are now...
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Inexpressible Ignorance
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 441–480.
Published: 01 October 2015
... as “quidditism,” is that a property is independent of its causal role. According to quidditism, it is a contingent fact that mass occupies the causal role that it does, and likewise for charge. Indeed, on this view, it is possible for mass and charge to “switch roles”—that is, for mass to play the role...
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I Am Not the Zygote I Came from because a Different Singleton Could Have Come from It
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 295–325.
Published: 01 July 2022
... mass, (iii) the inner cell mass develops without twinning into exactly one infant (almost) all of whose cells at birth originate from it, and (iv) the infant naturally grows, if she does, into exactly one adult. And say that a zygote is developmentally plastic if and only if it develops...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 277–287.
Published: 01 April 2003
.... Beaty.
Lexington: Lexington Books, 2002. Pp. xxv, 167.
Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Edited by Philip Alperson.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Pp. xiii, 351.
Realism and Antirealism. Edited by William P. Alston. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2002. Pp...
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Some Stuffs Are Not Sums of Stuff
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 January 2004
...David Barnett Cornell University 2004 Bacon, J. 1973 . Do Generic Descriptions Denote? Mind 82 : 331 -47. Bunt, H. 1985 . Mass Terms and Model-Theoretic Semantics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Burge, T. 1977 . A Theory of Aggregates. Noûs 11 : 109 -11...
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Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 269–272.
Published: 01 April 2015
... ably, in a condensed recounting of the argument of his celebrated Space, Time and Spacetime . But a strong point mass viewpoint tacitly lies implicit in these appraisals. Suppose, however, that one approaches the aether as a colossal connected mechanism in the vein of J. J. Sylvester's 1875 remark...
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Mental Causation without Downward Causation
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., and Forecast (India-
napolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965), 104. So for Goodman, the extension of ‘shade of red’
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Mental Causation without Downward Causation
grams of mass, a property of particulars, is a natural kind. It is a determi-
nate of the property...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 435–446.
Published: 01 July 2003
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270.
Chomsky and His Critics. In the series Philosophers and Their Critics. Edited by
Louise M. Antony and Norbert Hornstein. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub-
lishing, 2003. Pp. ix, 342.
Il Problema dell’Intuizione: Tre Studi su Platone, Kant, Husserl. By Anselmo Apor-
tone, Francesco Aronadio...
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Applying Mathematics by Otávio Bueno and Steven French
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 670–674.
Published: 01 October 2020
... are represented by point masses that are allowed to move about within this “field” without affecting its strength at all (to permit this, Newton's Third Law must be “turned off” with respect to the large mass/small mass interactions). Accordingly, the qualities attributed to the points within the Poisson field...
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Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics for Conditionals
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of substance depends on this assumption). The power set of
W, that is, the set of all subsets of W, is denoted by V, and the power set of
any subset A of W, by VA. By convention, when p is a probability mass
function on W, then P will be the corresponding probability function
on V, such that the measure...
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Quine
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 117–124.
Published: 01 January 2011
... ontology by
arguing (1) that gravity (along with other forces) exists and (2) that mass is an
essential quality of matter. Chapter 5 argues that Newton’s ontology of absolute
space constitutes divine metaphysics. The final chapter considers how divine
metaphysics, which includes the principle that all...
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Newton as Philosopher
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and (2) that mass is an
essential quality of matter. Chapter 5 argues that Newton’s ontology of absolute
space constitutes divine metaphysics. The final chapter considers how divine
metaphysics, which includes the principle that all action is local, intersects with
(constrains) mundane metaphysics...
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Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 130–134.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and (2) that mass is an
essential quality of matter. Chapter 5 argues that Newton’s ontology of absolute
space constitutes divine metaphysics. The final chapter considers how divine
metaphysics, which includes the principle that all action is local, intersects with
(constrains) mundane metaphysics...
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