Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to give accounts of other facts or phenomena, and so they play a key role in many philosophers' views about the structure of the world. This volume explores neglected questions about the nature of brute facts and their explanatory role.
Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to give accounts of other facts or phenomena, and so they play a key role in many philosophers' views about the structure of the world. This volume explores neglected questions about the nature of brute facts and their explanatory role.
Elly Vintiadis teaches philosophy at the American College of Greece. Her current research interests are in the philosophy of mind, the metaphysics of mind and philosophy of psychiatry - mainly explanation, emergentism and the philosophical implications of mental disorders. In the past Vintiadis has taught at the Hellenic Naval Staff and Command College and at the City College of New York. Constantinos Mekios studied genetics at Columbia University prior to joining the philosophy department at Boston University, where he specialized in the philosophy of biology. Mekios is currently associate professor of philosophy at Stonehill College, where he has been teaching since 2006. His philosophical research remains informed primarily by biological problems and his present work centers on questions concerning explanation and methodology in Systems Biology.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Elly Vintiadis: Introduction * 2: John Heil: Must there be brute facts? * 3: Elanor Taylor: How to make the case for brute facts * 4: Joseph Levine: Bruteness and supervenience: mind vs. morality * 5: James Van Cleve: Brute necessity and the mind body problem * 6: Dana Goswick: Are modal facts brute facts? * 7: Kevin Morris: Truthmaking and the mysteries of emergence * 8: Torin Alter: Are there brute facts about consciousness? * 9: Gerald Vision: The Provenance of Consciousness * 10: John Symons: Brute facts about emergence * 11: Elly Vintiadis: There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts * 12: Peter Wyss: Emergence: inexplicable but explanatory * 13: Mark H. Bickhard: Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts * 14: Argyris Arnellos and Charbel El-Hani: Emergence, downward determination and brute facts in biological systems
* 1: Elly Vintiadis: Introduction * 2: John Heil: Must there be brute facts? * 3: Elanor Taylor: How to make the case for brute facts * 4: Joseph Levine: Bruteness and supervenience: mind vs. morality * 5: James Van Cleve: Brute necessity and the mind body problem * 6: Dana Goswick: Are modal facts brute facts? * 7: Kevin Morris: Truthmaking and the mysteries of emergence * 8: Torin Alter: Are there brute facts about consciousness? * 9: Gerald Vision: The Provenance of Consciousness * 10: John Symons: Brute facts about emergence * 11: Elly Vintiadis: There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts * 12: Peter Wyss: Emergence: inexplicable but explanatory * 13: Mark H. Bickhard: Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts * 14: Argyris Arnellos and Charbel El-Hani: Emergence, downward determination and brute facts in biological systems
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