Daniel Kaufman's core proposal is that much of what is typologically special about Tagalog syntax is rooted in the language having nouns but not verbs as its core lexical categories. He sees this at two levels. First, bare roots in Tagalog are nominal rather than verbal; for example, bili on its own means 'price bought for' rather than 'buy'. Second, he claims that fully inflected " verbs " in ...

This paper investigates the systemic nature of methodological individualism. According to widespread belief, the notion of autonomy of the actor that is defended by methodological individualism is mistaken because it is incompatible with the study of society in terms of its organized structure. We argue that this viewpoint must be rejected. In our opinion, it stems from confusion between ontolo...

Abstract In recent years, Protestant theology—particularly of the Reformed and evangelical variety—has shown an increased interest in historical retrieval. Various theologians have engaged work mining Great Tradition Christianity order to resource contemporary theology with wisdom from past. Presupposed this retrieval is a claim that by no means foregone conclusion for Roman Catholic Eastern Or...

It is now standard to interpret symmetry-related models of physical theories as representing the same state affairs. Recently, a debate has sprung up around question when this interpretational move warranted. In particular, Møller-Nielsen (Philos Sci 84(5):1253–1264, 2017) argued that one only allowed physically equivalent characterisation their common content. I disambiguate two versions claim...

<p class="Abstract">This paper discusses the consequences of latest PUEBI EYD
 V regulations for scientific ontological theorization through analyzing the
 semantical metaphysical commitment it reflects when we write formal mathematical
 statements using purely mathematical symbol (e.g., “there are 22 aardvarks”).
 This shows that EYD commits to Platonism
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Galileo (1564-1642), in his well-known Discorsi (Galileo, 1638), briefly turning attention to the fracture of a beam, starts an interesting discussion on beam’s breakage as well its location. Could section and breaking point beam have been determined beforehand? Furthermore, is it specific material? What did was not merely challenge physics problem, but prevailing knowledge time: namely, Aristo...

Relation-theories—theories on the metaphysical status of relations—have for some time stood at center disputes between realism and idealism. To such disputes, this paper contributes insights from an understudied premodern source, Sambandhasiddhi (Proof Relation). Its author Utpaladeva (c. 925–975 C.E.) is ?aiva philosopher India best known as innovator in Pratyabhijñ? (Doctrine Recognition) sch...

It is difficult for the metaphysician to not be fascinated by Stephen Hawking’s question, ‘What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to govern?’ (Hawking, 1988, p. 174). Like a Tuscan countryside in the eyes of a painter, this statement inspires quite the stream of consciousness, at least in my idiosyncratic mind. For one thing, Hawking’s wording sounds as i...

1.Puzzle According to a standard view in contemporary metaphysics, there are no necessary connections between distinct properties. But according to a standard view in philosophy of mind there are necessary connections between distinct properties. In short, we have a puzzle: standard metaphysics inconsistent with standard philosophy of mind. By ‘a standard view in contemporary metaphysics’ I mea...