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The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological
model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been
made of it. It has traditionally been thought that scientific
explanations were causal and that scientific explanations involved
deduction from laws. In recent years, however, this three-fold
identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal
explanations that are not scientific, scientific explanations that
are not deductive, deductions from laws that are neither causal
explanations nor scientific explanations, and causal explanations
that involve no deductions from laws. The aim of the present essay
is to defend the traditional identities, and to show that the more
recent attempts at invalidating them fail in their object. More
specifically, this essay argues that a Humean version of the
deductive-nomological model of explanation can be defended as (1)
the correct account of scientific explanation of individual facts
and processes, and as (2) the correct account of causal
explanations of individual facts and processes. The
deductive-nomological model holds that to explain an event E, say
that a is G, one must find some initial conditions C, say that a is
F, and a law or theory T such that T and C jointly entail E, and
both are essential to the deduction.
This essay proposes that Hume s non-substantialist bundle account
of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a
metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters
into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person
is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume s metaphysics
of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such
as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume s account is essentially
correct. In particular it is argued that it is one s character that
constitutes one s identity; and that sympathy and the passions of
pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one s
character and one s identity as a person. But also central is one s
body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one s
body is essential to one s identity is defended at length. Various
concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example,
neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy
and our inferences to other minds."
These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology.
Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes,
general facts, relations, the myth of the 'myth of the given', are
among the topics covered. Bergmann, Quine, Sellars, Russell,
Wittgenstein, Hume, Bradley, Hochberg, Dummett, Frege, Plato, are
among the philosophers discussed. The essays criticize non-Humean
notions of cause; they criticize the notion that besides simple
atomic facts there are also negative facts and general facts. They
defend a realism of properties as universals, against nominalism;
bare particulars; a (qualified) realism with regard to logical
form; a Russellian account of relations; and an account of minds
and intentionality, which is opposed to materialism, but is also a
form of (methodological) behaviourism. In general, the ontology is
one of logical atomism and empiricist throughout, rooted in a
Principle of Acquaintance.
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++++ The Forests Of Frederick County Fred Wilson Besley Maryland
State Board of Forestry, 1922 Technology & Engineering;
Agriculture; Forestry; Forests and forestry; Nature / Trees &
Forests; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Forestry
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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