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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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A One Category Ontology
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Externalism and memory
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TL;DR: The authors argue that anyone who is sympathetic to the Twin Earth thought experiments for externalism with respect to certain thoughts should endorse externalism in relation to certain memories, and that memory contents are themselves susceptible to an externalist treatment.
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Tropes – The Basic Constituents of Powerful Particulars?
TL;DR: The Strong Nuclear Theory (SNT) as mentioned in this paper is a powerful nuclear theory of simple substances that allows for co-located powerful particulars, where each powerful particular is co-located with its constituent tropes, which determine its causal powers.
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The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
TL;DR: In this article, Frege's Begriffsschrift theory of identity is used to define the concept of concept and object, and the notion of existence is defined as a notion of thought, truth value and assertion.
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