In this paper I argue that warrant for Lewis' principle of recombination presupposes warrant for a combinatorial analysis of intrinsicality, which in turn presupposes warrant for the principle of recombination. This, I claim, leads to a vicious circularity: warrant for neither doctrine can get off the ground
Over the last 30 years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between intri...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
Both Roderick Chisholm and Dean Zimmerman consider mereological essentialism to accurately describe ...
In this paper I argue that warrant for Lewis' principle of recombination presupposes warrant for a c...
A combinatorial analysis of intrinsicality takes intrinsic properties to be independent of accompani...
Three objections have recently been levelled at the analysis of intrinsicness offered by Rae Langton...
The Forrest-Armstrong argument, as reconfigured by David Lewis, is a reductio against an unrestricte...
In On the Plurality of Worlds (Lewis 1986), David Lewis imposes a condition on realist theories of m...
David Hume is committed to the claim that the imagination can separate, mix, and recombine its objec...
David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that in...
Response to Skiles (2009) on Trogdon (2009) on intrinsic properties and fundamentality
I present a novel argument against the non-contingency of identity. I first argue that the necessity...
I call anti-resemblism the thesis that independently of any contextual specification there is no det...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
Over the last 30 years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between intri...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
Both Roderick Chisholm and Dean Zimmerman consider mereological essentialism to accurately describe ...
In this paper I argue that warrant for Lewis' principle of recombination presupposes warrant for a c...
A combinatorial analysis of intrinsicality takes intrinsic properties to be independent of accompani...
Three objections have recently been levelled at the analysis of intrinsicness offered by Rae Langton...
The Forrest-Armstrong argument, as reconfigured by David Lewis, is a reductio against an unrestricte...
In On the Plurality of Worlds (Lewis 1986), David Lewis imposes a condition on realist theories of m...
David Hume is committed to the claim that the imagination can separate, mix, and recombine its objec...
David Lewis may be regarded as an antiessentialist. The reason is that he is said to believe that in...
Response to Skiles (2009) on Trogdon (2009) on intrinsic properties and fundamentality
I present a novel argument against the non-contingency of identity. I first argue that the necessity...
I call anti-resemblism the thesis that independently of any contextual specification there is no det...
Over the last thirty years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between i...
Over the last 30 years there have been a number of attempts to analyse the distinction between intri...
In the first part of this paper, I argue against the view that laws of nature are contingent, by att...
Both Roderick Chisholm and Dean Zimmerman consider mereological essentialism to accurately describe ...