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Naming and Necessity
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In this paper, the authors make a connection between the mind-body problem and the so-called "identity thesis" in analytic philosophy, which has wide-ranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be thought far-removed.Abstract:
I hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wide-ranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be thought far-removed, like arguments over the mind-body problem or the so-called ‘identity thesis’. Materialism, in this form, often now gets involved in very intricate ways in questions about what is necessary or contingent in identity of properties — questions like that. So, it is really very important to philosophers who may want to work in many domains to get clear about these concepts. Maybe I will say something about the mind-body problem in the course of these talks. I want to talk also at some point (I don’t know if I can get it in) about substances and natural kinds.read more
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The East in the West: Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Philosophy in the 20th Century
Abstract: The task of this chapter is to consider the impact of Asian philosophies on the English-speaking philosophical world from 1945 to 2015. While this time period has been profoundly productive of philosophical engagements across cultural boundaries, it is important to begin by noting that the history of philosophy is itself a history of ideas, texts, and thinkers crossing linguistic and geographical borders. Only relatively recently have European and American philosophers considered philosophy to be a distinctly “Western” pursuit. In the beginning of modern European engagement with Asia in the sixteenth century, for instance, many Europeans counted Asian traditions and civilizations as partners in – even the originators of – philosophical inquiry. Since the reconstruction of the “philosophical canon” in the eighteenth century, however, the discipline has been largely Eurocentric, and this has resulted in dramatic inequities in the terms of engagement with Asian philosophical traditions (Park 2013). Much early comparative work, in fact, often treats Western traditions as the gold standard, frequently doing violence to non-Western traditions in forcing them to try to conform to artificial, external standards (Kirloskar-Steinbach, Ramana, and Maffie 2014.)
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Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic
TL;DR: JSTOR as discussed by the authors is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship, which is used to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.