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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of the mechanistic account. This rigor of detail and breadth of application establish Physical Computation as essential reading for all those working on philosophy of computation and recommend it strongly to philosophers of mind, physics, biology, or any other area in which appeals to concrete computation arise...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 467–471.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eric Hiddleston © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Shoemaker Sydney , Physical Realization . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . x + 151 pp . 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 Cornell University 2007 Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 186 pp. 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
...Christopher S. Hill Pereboom Derk , Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . x +195 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 This splendid book makes several major contributions to the philosophy of mind. It is concerned...
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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
... personality despite determinism, will be pleased with the explanation given in How Physics Makes Us Free . Ismael herself acknowledges this, but also wonders what one would be looking for by setting such a high bar for free will. She invokes Nietzsche: “The desire to bear the entire and ultimate...
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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 (2000) 109 (4): 636–639.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Sheldon M. Cohen Cornell University 2000 THE ORDER OF NATURE IN ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS: PLACE AND THE ELEMENTS. By Helen S. Lang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 324. BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 422–424.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Daniel Stoljar Cornell University 2003 Carl Gillet and Barry Loewer, editors, Physicalism and Its Discontents. Cambridge University Press, 2001 Pp. 369, xi. BOOK REVIEWS would be quite useful in a graduate-level metaphysics course. Indeed, this book...
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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 (2025) 134 (1): 77–81.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Jeremy Butterfield [email protected] North Jill , Physics, Structure, and Reality . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . x + 252 pp. © 2025 by Cornell University 2025 This is a very good book. It addresses central questions about the interpretation of physical...
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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 (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 (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 (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. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 perception hallucination memory scattered objects externalism When one hallucinates a flying pig...
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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 (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 (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 (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...