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Metaphysics
2 posts tagged Metaphysics, newest first.
Four dimensions, same problem
A paper on Sider's four-dimensionalist treatment of the Ship of Theseus. Written as a state and a transition function, the four-dimensional view turns out to need exactly what the three-dimensional causal unity account needs, so it inherits that problem rather than escaping it.
Causation is contested only at the edges
A paper on Godfrey-Smith's proposal to treat causation as an essentially contested concept. The boundary really is blurry, but the ordinary use is stable enough that courts agree on most of it, which is not how a contested concept behaves.