Review: Beyond the Hoax: Science and Culture (Alan Sokal)
beyond the hoax - alan sokal Much of the material is the same as in Sokal and Bricmont's earlier book. But there is some new material as well. I especially…
Some quotes from Every Thing Must Go (Ladymann, Ross, and others)
every thing must go Preface This is a polemical book. One of its main contentions is that contemporary analytic metaphysics, a professional activity engaged in by some extremely intelligent…
Time travel: reading material
I am taking a metafysics class1 and last lectur's topic was time travel. That is an issu i sort of like but i dislike the way people discuss it, in…
Propositions, cross-world identity and truth values
1. There is a thing, x, such that it is a contingent proposition. ∃xCx 2. For any thing, x, if x is a contingent proposition then there is a possible…
Norman Swartz on realism about abstract objects
“Although I generally prefer negative theories – those which posit as few unempirical concepts* as possible – my own leanings in this particular case are toward Realism. My attraction to…
Identity and personal identity
Some people think that the identity notion is captured by the second proposal above. I think we need two notions of identity. I will not discuss that now. Strict identity…
The principle of unique location
For all things, for all locations y, for all locations z and for all times t, that a thing is in location y at time t and that y is…