Averroes’s Unity Argument Against Multiple Intellects

Argument, Inquiry, and the Unity of Science

Ockham’s razor impels scientists to seek ever greater unity in nature. That seems to saddle science with a metaphysical presupposition of simplicity that might be false. The objection is apt if scientific method is understood as a system of inductive logic or proof, for then the unity of science must, somehow, function as an unjustified premise in scientific arguments. But if science is underst...

Against the Vagueness Argument

In this paper I offer a counterexample to the so called vagueness argument against restricted composition. This will be done in the lines of a recent suggestion by Trenton Merricks, namely by challenging the claim that there cannot be a sharp cut-off point in a composition sequence. It will be suggested that causal powers which emerge when composition occurs can serve as an indicator of such sh...

An Argument against Epiphenomenalism

_________________________________________________ I formulate an argument against epiphenomenalism; the argument shows that epiphenomenalism is extremely improbable. Moreover the argument suggests that qualia not only have causal powers, but have their causal powers necessarily. I address possible objections and then conclude by considering some implications the argument has for dualism.

A Kantian argument against abortion.

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Cricoid pressure: the argument against