Russell and the Metaphysics of Neutral Monism

The world as a graph: defending metaphysical graphical structuralism

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Wittgenstein's criticism of Russell's theory of judgment

THE PUBLICATION FOR the first time in its entirety of what was writ­ ten of Russell's 1913 book, Theory of Knowledge,I throws a flood of light on . m��Y aspe�ts of Ru�sell's philosophy between the completion of Pnnczpw _ a�d his co�verswn to neutral monism, and perhaps even more o . n the ongms of Wmgenstein's logical atomism. The book was to con­ Sist of two large parts (Russell at one time th...

Racism: Against Jorge Garcia's Moral and Psychological Monism

Dual-Aspect Monism à la Pauli and Jung

Dual-aspect monism and neutral monism offer interesting alternatives to mainstream positions concerning the mind-matter problem. Both assume a domain underlying the mind-matter distinction, but they also differ in definitive ways. In the 20th century, variants of both positions have been advanced by a number of protagonists. One of these variants, the dual-aspect monism due to Wolfgang Pauli an...

Pluto and the Platypus or: The Role of Classificatory Norms1

Many astronomers seem to believe that we have discovered that Pluto is not a planet. But this is not so. Recent discoveries of trans-Neptunian Pluto-sized objects do not militate for Pluto’s expulsion from the planets unless we have prior reason for not simply counting these newly-discovered objects among the planets. I argue that this classificatory controversy — which I compare to the controv...