Anyadvancedtheoryofphysicscontainsmodulesdefinedasessentialcomponents that are themselves theories with different domains of application. Different kinds of modules can be distingu...
The interest of epistemic comparative conditionals comes from the fact that they represent genuine `comparative epistemic relations' between propositions, situations, evidence...
Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the struc...
This paper discusses the notion of necessity in the light of results from contemporary mathematical practice. Two descriptions of necessity are considered. According to the first, ...
Sydney Shoemaker leads today's "neo-Lockean" liberation of persons from the conservative animalist charge of "neo-Aristotelians" such as Eric Olson, accord...