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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 636–639.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Sheldon M. Cohen THE ORDER OF NATURE IN ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS: PLACE AND THE ELEMENTS. By Helen S. Lang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 324. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 431–435.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Jenann Ismael Frisch Mathias , Causal Reasoning in Physics . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . viii + 256 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 In 1913 Bertrand Russell argued that contrary to what most of us presume, the causal structure of the world...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 256–260.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Denise Dykstra Ismael J. T. , How Physics Makes Us Free . New York: Oxford University Press , 2016 . ix + 273 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 While a deterministic universe, at face value, seems to preclude free will, J. T. Ismael's incredibly accessible and highly...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Alistair M. C. Isaac Piccinini Gualtiero , Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . ix + 313 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 The question of which physical systems compute is of pressing foundational import for the cognitive...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 467–471.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eric Hiddleston Shoemaker Sydney , Physical Realization . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . x + 151 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS
Paul Bartha, By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2008
...John Heil Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 186 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS
Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 511–518.
Published: 01 July 2013
... accentuated? My guess is that when answers to these questions are in hand, they will not be such as to mandate nonreductive versions of physicalism, though they may leave it as an option. To be sure, Pereboom does not endorse all versions of the argument; he keeps his distance from versions that are meant...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 422–424.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Daniel Stoljar Carl Gillet and Barry Loewer, editors, Physicalism and Its Discontents. Cambridge University Press, 2001 Pp. 369, xi. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS
would be quite useful in a graduate-level metaphysics course. Indeed, this book...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 641–645.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Porter Williams [email protected] Batterman Robert W. , A Middle Way: A Non-fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xiii + 174 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 For over two decades now, Robert Batterman’s work has...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Jeffrey K. McDonough This essay offers an account of the relationship between extended Leibnizian bodies and unextended Leibnizian monads, an account that shows why Leibniz was right to see intimate, explanatory connections between his studies in physics and his mature metaphysics. The first...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... cannot empirically represent a physical subject matter as having specific physical characteristics unless the individual can represent some constitutive conditions under which such representation is possible. The version of this view that dominated the century's second half maintained that objective...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Chiwook Won The overdetermination problem has long been raised as a challenge to nonreductive physicalism. Nonreductive physicalists have, in various ways, tried to resolve the problem through appeal to counterfactuals. This essay does two things. First, it takes up the question whether...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 425–464.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Dilip Ninan When one considers one's own persistence over time from the first-person perspective, it seems as if facts about one's persistence are “further facts,” over and above facts about physical and psychological continuity. But the idea that facts about one's persistence are further facts...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 31–76.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to consider particles fundamental, with metaphysical explanation snaking upward from the many. There seem to be physical and modal considerations that favor the monistic view. Physically, there is good evidence that the cosmos forms an entangled system and good reason to treat entangled systems as irreducible...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 327–359.
Published: 01 July 2022
... problems. This article defends the view that there is always an object of hallucination—a physical object, sometimes with spatiotemporally scattered parts. [email protected] [email protected] © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 perception hallucination memory scattered objects...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 1–49.
Published: 01 January 2022
... worlds and the presence of several other accompanying features. Under certain assumptions, such vagueness prevents the fundamental physical theory from being completely expressible in the mathematical language. Moreover, I suggest that such vagueness can be regarded as vagueness in the world . For a case...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 573–609.
Published: 01 October 2012
... physical chance. (ii) Counterfactual conditionals can be defined by appeal to a relation of closeness between possible worlds. The essay tries to show that absurd consequences ensue if either of these assumptions is combined with antihaecceitism. Then it considers a natural response by the antihaecceitist...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 365–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., expressing the supervenience of the phenomenal on the physical, is necessary but not a priori. However, what Chalmers and Jackson demonstrate, if anything, is that the conditional that includes all the microphysical plus the phenomenal in the antecedent, and nonphenomenal macro facts (such as facts about...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2005
... Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 327.
Physicalism is the thesis that, in some sense, physical nature is basic nature:
everything is dependent on the physical. But dependent how? In this provoca-
tive and challenging book, Andrew Melnyk defends the claim that the non-
physical—by which he means to include...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 January 2006
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picture leads to counterintuitive results. Suppose a mental event, m1 ,
causes another mental event, m2 . Unless the mental and the physical
are completely independent, there will be a physical event in your brain
or your body or the physical world as a whole that underlies this event...
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