In: Philosophical studies, 2021, p. 26
This paper is concerned with two concepts of qualitativeness that apply to intensional entities (i.e., properties, relations, and states of affairs). I propose an account of pure qualitativeness that largely follows the traditional understanding established by Carnap, and try to shed light on its ontological presuppositions. On this account, an intensional entity is purely qualitative iff it...
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In: Synthese, 2021, no. 199, p. 10211–10252
A common feature of all standard theories of the laws of nature is that they are ‘absolutist’: They take laws to be either all metaphysically necessary or all contingent. Science, however, gives us reason to think that there are laws of both kinds, suggesting that standard theories should make way for ‘non-absolutist’ alternatives: theories which accommodate laws of both modal statuses....
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In: Axiomathes, 2020, p. 15 p
It has been argued that Humean Supervenience (HS) is threatened by the existence of quantum entanglement relations. The most conservative strategy for defending HS is to add the problematic entanglement relations to the supervenience basis, alongside spatiotemporal relations. In this paper, I’m going to argue against this strategy by showing how certain particular cases of tripartite ...
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In: Topoi, 2015, vol. 34, no. 2, p. 397-400
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In: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2017, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 1007-1036
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In: Philosophy & Technology, 2015, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 479-485
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In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2015, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 387-397
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In: Metaphysica, 2017, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 33-59
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In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2015, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 89-110
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In: Topoi, 2015, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 143-155
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