Mind, Values, and Metaphysics: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 1

530 Pages·2014·4.55 MB·English

by  Anne Reboul (eds.)

Mind, Values, and Metaphysics
Anne Reboul
Editor
Mind, Values,
and Metaphysics
Philosophical Essays in Honor
of Kevin Mulligan–Volume 1
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Editor
Anne Reboul
L2C2, CNRS UMR5304 Institute
for Cognitive Sciences
Bron Cedex
France
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Although (and maybe because) I really tried,
I was unable to deceive myself into thinking
that the writing of a new philosophical
paper was compatible with finishing my
thesis in time. I decided instead to make a
little bundle of tropes, a logical musing, an
affective picture (no photographic ones, I
know). To you this little bundle; whether you
make it true, whether I made it valuable, its
existence is grounded in yours.
K.M.: Tollendo Tollens
“L’ennui est la marque des esprits
médiocres.” (Albert I)
Tous les jours je remets l’ouvrage sur le
métier,
Œuvrant à découvrir ce que cachent les
ombres,
Les poupées de Platon, les motifs avoués,
Les illusions sucrées dans lesquelles
l’esprit sombre.
Et tous les jours encore je marche face au
vent,
Narguant les politiques de notre Alma
Mater,
Dirigeant l’étudiant au large du continent,
Ou fessant le thésard un peu trop tête en
l’air.
Tant de temps a passé, et je combats
encore,
Oublieux de l’effort, dédaignant le repos.
Les années je les donne, ma santé et mon
or,
La vérité le veut, la vérité le vaut.
Et si parfois, j’avoue, je me trouve un peu
las,
Nulle autre destinée que la philosophie,
Soyez-en convaincus, n’était faite pour
moi.
Qu’on soit donc prévenu, rien ne
m’arrêtera,
En prenant des années ma passion
s’affermit.
Dès lors je vous promets encore bien des
éclats!
Amanda Garcia
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
Anne Reboul
Part I Metaphysics
2 Formal Objects and the Argument from Knowledge .......................... 19
Jessica Leech
3 T he Naming of Facts and the Methodology of Language-
Based Metaphysics .................................................................................. 35
Arianna Betti
4 The Truth About Predicates and Connectives ...................................... 63
Johannes Stern
5 Truth-Makers and Convention T .......................................................... 79
Jan Woleński
6 From Grounding to Truth-Making: Some Thoughts ........................... 85
Fabrice Correia
7 Fundamental Ontology and Ontology of Epistemic Processes ........... 99
Pierre Livet
8 Tropes and Truth ..................................................................................... 109
Keith Lehrer and Joseph Tolliver
9 The Facts of Tropes ................................................................................. 117
Herbert Hochberg
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10 The Transcendental Metaphysic of G. F. Stout: His Defence
and Elaboration of Trope Theory ........................................................ 141
Fraser MacBride
11 Two Problems for Resemblance Nominalism ..................................... 159
Andrea C. Bottani
12 Counting the Colours ............................................................................ 171
Benjamin Schnieder
13 Predication ............................................................................................. 185
Paolo Leonardi
14 Temporal Parts and Spatial Location ................................................. 199
Damiano Costa
15 Internal, Formal and Thin Relations .................................................. 207
François Clementz
16 All Relations Are Internal: The New Version ..................................... 225
Ingvar Johansson
17 Connectives, Prenectives and Dishonoured Cheques of
Metaphysical Explanation .................................................................... 241
Philipp Blum
18 Because ................................................................................................... 253
Achille C. Varzi
19 Why Metaphysicians Do Not Explain ................................................. 257
Ingar Brinck, Göran Hermerén, Johannes Persson and Nils-Eric Sahlin
20 Science and Metaphysics: The Case of Quantum Physics ................ 267
Michael Esfeld
Part II History of Philosophy
21 Bolzano’s Lehrjahre .............................................................................. 289
Jan Sebestik
22 Bolzano Versus Kant: Mathematics as a Scientia Universalis .......... 295
Paola Cantù
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23 Le direct et l’oblique: sur quelques aspects antiques et
médiévaux de la théorie brentanienne des relatifs ............................. 317
Alain de Libera
24 Austrian Philosophy and its Institutions: Remarks on the
Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888–1938) ........ 349
Denis Fisette
25 La noción del valor en la filosofía de Meinong ................................... 375
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
26 Austrian and Hungarian Philosophy: On the Logic of
Wittgenstein and Pauler ....................................................................... 387
Barry Smith
27 W innowing Wittgenstein: What’s Worth Salvaging from
the Wreck of the Tractatus .................................................................... 407
Peter Simons
28 Wittgenstein, ses prédécesseurs et ses contemporains ....................... 423
Mélika Ouelbani
29 Wittgenstein on Heidegger and Cosmic Emotions ............................. 435
Mathieu Marion
30 Le dogme de la vérité selon Parménide ............................................... 459
Jean-Maurice Monnoyer
31 The Mind–Body Problem in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty ................ 471
Roberta Lanfredini
32 Locke and the Problem of Weakness of the Will ................................ 483
Richard Glauser
33 Bergson, Truth-making, and the Retrograde Movement of
the True .................................................................................................. 501
Daniel Schulthess
Kevin Mulligan’s Bibliography .................................................................... 513
Index ............................................................................................................... 529
Contributors
Arianna Betti Department of Philosophy/Institute of Logic, Language and
Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Philipp Blum Swiss National Science Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Andrea C. Bottani Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Ingar Brinck Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Paola Cantù Centre d’Epistémologie et d’Ergologie Comparatives, Aix-Marseille
Université/CNRS, UMR7304, Aix-en-Provence, France
François Clementz CEPERC—UMR 7304, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille,
France
Fabrice Correia University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Damiano Costa University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Alain de Libera Collège de France, Paris, France
Michael Esfeld Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland
Denis Fisette Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Richard Glauser University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Göran Hermerén Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Herbert Hochberg University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Ingvar Johansson Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Roberta Lanfredini University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Jessica Leech Department of philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Keith Lehrer University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Paolo Leonardi Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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