...Samuele Iaquinto Note that the possibilist has the resources to evaluate BF, NE, and BC as true even if—in accordance with one of the core ideas of actualism—she interprets ‘there is’ as existentially loaded (so endorsing Thesis I). Indeed, she might enrich the inventory of the world...

.... For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2016 Abstract The paper deals with cases of counting things that could exist but do not actually exist that resist common strategies for actualist paraphrases and that play an important role in motivating Timothy Williamson's ontology...

...The chapter argues that the best version of act-utilitarianism (as well as the best version of consequentialism) will: (1) evaluate sets of actions and not just individual actions, (2) presuppose securitism as opposed to actualism or possibilism, (3) index permissions and obligations to times...

... Subject View Actualism actualist view Feinberg Joel gestational age Johansson Jens abortion actualism death gradualism time-relative interests vagueness well-being In evaluating a health care policy outcome, we need to determine, among other things, the effects of the policy on preventing...

...This chapter explores Aquinas’s thought on esse, and in particular details how, for Aquinas, esse is the act of all acts. Accordingly, this chapter shows how Aquinas advanced the metaphysical discussion about actuality beyond that of his predecessors. In particular...

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... Jarvis Markosian Ned Quine W v O Williamson Timothy serious actualism explained Hawthorne John Manley David aboutness explained representing things as being a certain way singular propositions serious actualism Adams Williamson Plantinga constituent Chapter   4 argued...

... Visible Ideas Physical objects Organic beings Potential Being Non-actualism The main obstacle to the adoption of a finalist or neofinalist philosophy, to which so many facts converge today, stems from a deep-rooted prejudice, according to which the visible and tangible matter is all...

... possible worlds times i actual world the present @ true in a world true at a time @(⌜¬φ⌝, t) iff it is not the case that @(φ, t)   @(⌜φ → ψ⌝, t...

... to debates about the nature of possibility. It would lead to the rejection of views that posit a fundamental distinction between what is actual and what is merely possible. actualism eternalism possibilism presentism simplicity special relativity abstract or non concrete objects general relativity...

.... How can both intuitions be true? Failed solutions ground a child’s moral status in that child’s existential status or claim that nonexistence can’t be compared against existence. This chapter’s solution—the existence-sensitive solution—rejects moral actualism and accepts nonexistence comparability...

...-ing to what one would do otherwise. Part 2 concerns the possibilist answer, according to which one ought to Φ just in case one ought to prefer some option that involves Φ-ing to any option that does not involve Φ-ing. It is argued that actualism is absurd, and that, while different versions...

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...This chapter analyzes the relationship of dispositional essentialism to questions of modality and to intentionality. Armstrong criticizes dispositional essentialism on the ground that it leads to a Meinongian commitment to non-actual possibilia. It is shown that Armstrong's view is likewise...

... those motivations out, this chapter goes on to distinguish six main ways of dealing with the problem of the apparent contingency of existence. It then argues that a view based on Robert Adams' work on actualism and individual thisness offers the best account. actualism semantic theory modal logic...

...This chapter begins with a systematic presentation of the doctrine of actualism. According to actualism, all that exists is actual, determinate, and of one way of being. There are no possible objects, nor is there any indeterminacy in the world. In addition, there are no ways of being...

... this theme in greater detail and argue for the compatibility of actualism – i.e., the view that there neither are, nor could have been, any nonexistent objects – and possible worlds. Both Chs. 6 and 7 contain an account of the relationship between proper names and essences, my view being that proper names...

... Kaplan David truth sentence tokens Aristotle serious actualism Aboutness Assumption essences antisymmetry of parthood antisymmetry of constituency King Jeffrey thisness haecceities proposition singular proposition Plantinga names essence actualism serious actualism Alvin Plantinga says...