In: Géo-Regards. Revue neuchâteloise de géographie, 2017, vol. 10, p. 71-91
This article examines the reasons, strategies, experiences and future plans of international students who relocate to Switzerland for tertiary studies. The University of Bern serves as a case study. An online survey was sent to all international students who were enrolled in the academic year 2015-2016 for their Bachelor, Master or Doctoral studies. The results show that their decisions to study...
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In: Revue Tranel (Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique), 2018, vol. 69, p. 1-3
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In: Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 2002, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 435-436
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In: Dialogue, 1966, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 1-18
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In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2007, vol. 10, no. 2, p. -
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In: Synthese, 2016, p. 1-16
David Lewis famously endorsed Unrestricted Composition. His defense of such a controversial principle builds on the alleged innocence of mereology. This innocence defense has come under different attacks in the last decades. In this paper I pursue another line of defense, that stems from some early remarks by van Inwagen. I argue that Unrestricted Composition leads to a better metaphysics. In...
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In: Erkenntnis, 2016, vol. 81, no. 6, p. 1173-1194
In this paper, we focus on two related reductive theses in metaphysics—Humean Supervenience and Composition as Identity—and on their status in light of the indications coming from science, in particular quantum mechanics. While defenders of these reductive theses (at least those who do not simply deny the metaphysical import of empirical data and their proposed interpretation)...
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In: Philosophy Compass, 2016, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 102-120
Relativity theory is often said to support something called ‘the four-dimensional view of reality’. But there are at least three different views that sometimes go by this name. One is ‘spacetime unitism’ (as we call it), according to which there is a spacetime manifold, and if there are such things as points of space or instants of time, these are just spacetime regions of different...
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In: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 2013, vol. 8, p. 332-350
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In: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 2015, vol. 9, p. 376-389
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