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This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.

This book features papers from CEPE-IACAP 2015, a joint international conference focused on the philosophy of computing. Inside, readers will discover essays that explore current issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, logic, and philosophy of science from the lens of computation.

The original essays in this volume discuss ideas relating to democracy, political justice, equality and inequalities in the distribution of resources and public goods.

This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a philosophical activity when they use expressions such as taboos, proverbs, idioms, riddles, and metaphors.The analysis investigates proverbs using the ordinary language approach and Speech Act theory. Next, the author looks at taboos using counterfactual logic, which studies the meaning of taboo expressions by departing from a consideration of their structure and use. He argues that the study of these figurative expressions using the counterfactual framework offers a particular understanding of African philosophy and belief systems. The study also investigates issues of meaning and rationality departing from a study on riddles, explores conceptual metaphors used in conceptualizing the notion of politics in modern African political thought, and examines language and marginalization of women and people with disabilities.The book differs from other works in African philosophy in the sense that it does not claim that Africans have a philosophy as is commonly done in most studies. Rather, it reflects and unfolds philosophical elements in ordinary language use. The book also builds African Conception of beauty and truth through the study of language.

This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.e. The author argues that states of affairs are the best candidate for truthmakers and, in the spirit of logical atomism, that we need no molecular truthmakers for positive truths.

Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation.

This book is a study of John Locke's metaphysics of organisms and persons, with particular emphasis on his theory of identity through time and his conventionalism with respect to kinds and essences.

TItis book is the joint project of a philosopher, Lehrer, and a mathematician, Wagner. Wagner read the manuscript of Lehrer [1978] and subsequently solved some mathematical problems of the elementary model.

Having taken a position on this question (1997), - guing that justi cation extends to theoretical hypotheses, I came to wonder about the nature of justi cation generally. Now that I know that just- cation extends to theory, I am taking a step back and asking what justi cation is.

This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K.

Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society, 1995-2000

In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation. It also shows some of the drawbacks of the standard game-theoretical treatments of cooperation and presents a survey of cooperation research in neighbouring fields.

And of course Russell's eliminativist answer implies that one cannot even ask, on pain of succumbing to the fallacy of complex question, why any contingent individual exists: if no individual exists, there can be no question why any individual exists.

The goal of the book is to present the latest research on the new challenges of data technologies. It will offer an overview of the social, ethical and legal problems posed by group profiling, big data and predictive analysis and of the different approaches and methods that can be used to address them.

Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

According to those theologians, man's actions are determined but man retains the power to act otherwise and therefore is responsible for his actions. Savage challenges the dogma that Leibniz's metaphysical principles entail that individuals are powerless to act otherwise and that God cannot conceive of them acting otherwise.

This book is an extensive, self-contained, up-to-date study of Lehrer's epistemological work. Lehrer's extensive replies in a final chapter give unique access to his current epistemological thinking.

Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

In this work, the author formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as 'Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat).

It considers the history and philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophical semantics, and artificial intelligence.

This essay is the product of years of distaste for, and dissatisfaction with, the efforts of moral philosophers. Generally speaking, philosophy, and, in particular, moral philosophy, is too hard fot philosophers.

In this book I address a dichotomy that is as central as any in ontology - that between ordinary objects or substances and the various attributes (Le.

Philosophy is the search for the large patterns of the world and of the large patterns of experience, perceptual, theoretical, . Here I develop a network of theories about the most fundamental aspects of practical thinking: what is thought in such thinking;

This book, in Chapters I-V, is mainly concerned with the kind of justification and rationality characteristic of a truth-seeker, specifically a seeker of truth about the world impinging upon the senses: the so-called empirical world.

The goal of the book is to present the latest research on the new challenges of data technologies. It will offer an overview of the social, ethical and legal problems posed by group profiling, big data and predictive analysis and of the different approaches and methods that can be used to address them.

In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects.