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Review: Beyond the Hoax: Science and Culture (Alan Sokal)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:1. February 2013
  • Post category:Epistemology/Metaphysics/Religion/Science/Science/Sociology
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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…

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Some quotes from Every Thing Must Go (Ladymann, Ross, and others)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. August 2012
  • Post category:Metaphilosophy/Metaphysics
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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…

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Time travel: reading material

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. September 2011
  • Post category:Metaphysics
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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…

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Propositions, cross-world identity and truth values

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. October 2010
  • Post category:Metaphysics
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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…

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Norman Swartz on realism about abstract objects

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. December 2009
  • Post category:Metaphysics
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“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…

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Identity and personal identity

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. December 2009
  • Post category:Metaphysics
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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…

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The principle of unique location

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. December 2009
  • Post category:Metaphysics
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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…

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