The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (170 page)

owl of Minerva
174

Papineau, David
3n3
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305n8
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331n5
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342n27

Parfit, Derek
13n25

passions
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–45,
56
–58,
63
–64,
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254
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396n73
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548

Peirce, C.S.
4
,
311

Perry, John
338n23

personhood.

subjecthood and personhood

perspectivism.

Nietzsche’s perspectivism

phenomenological reduction.

Heidegger’s phenomenological reduction Husserl’s phenomenological reduction

See
phenomenological sense-making

phenomenological sense-making
433
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436
–438,
441
–444 passim,
447
,
451
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453
–454,
462
–463,
467
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490
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582
,
599

phenomenology
429
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436
–440 passim,
444
–449,
454
–457,
458n76
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459
–466 passim,
468
,
472
–474,
481
,
507
,
516
–519,
584
,
602

Heidegger’s phenomenological reduction Husserl’s eidetic reduction Husserl’s phenomenological reduction

See also
phenomenological sense-making

Philonous
452n64

philosophy: analytic

analytic philosophy metaphysics and philosophy as activities ‘continental’ philosophy contrasted with science metaphysics and philosophy contrasted with science history of history of philosophy

See
as an activity
,
‘continental’

metaphysics and philosophy as activities ‘continental’ philosophy contrasted with science metaphysics and philosophy contrasted with science history of history of philosophy

See
‘continental’

‘continental’ philosophy contrasted with science metaphysics and philosophy contrasted with science history of history of philosophy

in relation to metaphysics
xviii
,
2n1
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8
–9,
28
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156n30
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226
–227,
341
–342,
343
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431
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499n13
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510n35
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585
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588n7
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604n35

Lewis’ approach to

Lewis’ approach to metaphysics and philosophy naturalistic metaphysics and philosophy ‘ordinary language’ ‘ordinary language’ philosophy Wittgenstein’s conception of Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy

See
naturalistic

naturalistic metaphysics and philosophy ‘ordinary language’ ‘ordinary language’ philosophy Wittgenstein’s conception of Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy

physics
xvii
,
14
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18
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41
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137n74
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191
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214
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226
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232
–233,
257n9
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291
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294
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305
–307,
312
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325
–326,
333
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338
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379
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425
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585
–587,
596
,
603

See also
physicalism

physicalism
38
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48n14
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51
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306n11
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333

Quine’s
See
Quine’s physicalism.

See also
naturalism

Pilate
374

Pindar
567n68

Pippin, Robert
168n18

Plato
xvii
–xviii,
68n3
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110n8
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212n55
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218n73
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223n6
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252n79
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258n11
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376n12
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377
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471n40
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475
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515
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520
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556
,
579

See also
Platonism

Platonism
272
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376n12
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377
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475
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515
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523
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529
–530,
546n11
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556
,
579

Frege’s

Frege’s Platonism

Plutarch
218n73

Poincaré, Henri
291n34

points of view
14
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46
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68
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84
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121n36
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169
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272
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324
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379
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382
–386 passim,
392
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394
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403
–404,
407
–408,
516
,
563
,
603

Nietzsche’s perspectivism

positivism.
See
logical positivism

possibility.

Leibniz’ notion of a possible world Lewis’ notion of a possible world

See
necessity and possibility

possible worlds.

Leibniz’ notion of a possible world Lewis’ notion of a possible world

pragmatism
311
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320

presence
172
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469
,
472
,
513
–516,
521
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526
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528n45
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530
–534 passim

metaphysics of
See
metaphysics of presence.

See also
absence
,
givenness
,
immanence

presence-at-hand.

Heidegger’s present-at-hand/ready-to-hand distinction

pre-Socratics
471n40
,
472
–473,
513
,
515

See also
Anaximander
,
Empedocles
,
Heraclitus
,
Pythagoreans
,
Zeno of Elea

Priest, Graham
530n20

principle of contradiction
8
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68
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76n26
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79(
–80)n33,
81
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114
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183
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188n78
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202n22
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216
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252n79
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313
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350n22
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361
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385
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447
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488
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581
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594

See also
bivalence

principle of sufficient reason.

Leibniz’ use of the principle of sufficient reason

Proops, Ian
113n16

properties.

Frege’s problem concerning properties

Propositional Assumption
510

propositional sense and sense-making
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234
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236
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510
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572
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574
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578n94
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581
–584 passim,
598
–599

linguistic sense (compared with propositional sense) non-propositional sense and sense-making

See also
Propositional Assumption

Psalmists
252n79

pseudo-metaphysics.

Collingwood’s notion of pseudo-metaphysics

Putnam, Hilary
38
,
265n35

Pythagoreans
400n90

qualitative difference.
See
under
difference

qualitative identity.
See
under
identity

quasi-realism
34
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97n32
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297n50
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498

Quine, W.V.
18
–19,
183n65
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301
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329
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347
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381
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399n84
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523n33
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536n71
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598n22