Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

Anne ReboulEditor

Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan–Volume 1

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EditorAnne ReboulL2C2, CNRS UMR5304 Institute

for Cognitive SciencesBron CedexFrance

Although (and maybe because) I really tried, I was unable to deceive myself into thinking that the writing of a new philosophical paper was compatible with finishing my thesis in time. I decided instead to make a little bundle of tropes, a logical musing, an affective picture (no photographic ones, I know). To you this little bundle; whether you make it true, whether I made it valuable, its existence is grounded in yours.

K.M.: Tollendo Tollens

“L’ennui est la marque des esprits médiocres.” (Albert I)Tous les jours je remets l’ouvrage sur le métier, Œuvrant à découvrir ce que cachent les ombres, Les poupées de Platon, les motifs avoués, Les illusions sucrées dans lesquelles l’esprit sombre. Et tous les jours encore je marche face au vent, Narguant les politiques de notre Alma Mater, Dirigeant l’étudiant au large du continent, Ou fessant le thésard un peu trop tête en l’air.

Tant de temps a passé, et je combats encore, Oublieux de l’effort, dédaignant le repos. Les années je les donne, ma santé et mon or, La vérité le veut, la vérité le vaut. Et si parfois, j’avoue, je me trouve un peu las, Nulle autre destinée que la philosophie, Soyez-en convaincus, n’était faite pour moi.

Qu’on soit donc prévenu, rien ne m’arrêtera, En prenant des années ma passion s’affermit. Dès lors je vous promets encore bien des éclats!

Amanda Garcia

University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Contents

1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1Anne Reboul

Part I Metaphysics

2 Formal Objects and the Argument from Knowledge .......................... 19Jessica Leech

3 The Naming of Facts and the Methodology of Language-Based Metaphysics .................................................................................. 35Arianna Betti

4 The Truth About Predicates and Connectives ...................................... 63Johannes Stern

5 Truth-Makers and Convention T .......................................................... 79Jan Woleński

6 From Grounding to Truth-Making: Some Thoughts ........................... 85Fabrice Correia

7 Fundamental Ontology and Ontology of Epistemic Processes ........... 99Pierre Livet

8 Tropes and Truth ..................................................................................... 109Keith Lehrer and Joseph Tolliver

9 The Facts of Tropes ................................................................................. 117Herbert Hochberg

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10 The Transcendental Metaphysic of G. F. Stout: His Defence and Elaboration of Trope Theory ........................................................ 141Fraser MacBride

11 Two Problems for Resemblance Nominalism ..................................... 159Andrea C. Bottani

12 Counting the Colours ............................................................................ 171Benjamin Schnieder

13 Predication ............................................................................................. 185Paolo Leonardi

14 Temporal Parts and Spatial Location ................................................. 199Damiano Costa

15 Internal, Formal and Thin Relations .................................................. 207François Clementz

16 All Relations Are Internal: The New Version ..................................... 225Ingvar Johansson

17 Connectives, Prenectives and Dishonoured Cheques of Metaphysical Explanation .................................................................... 241Philipp Blum

18 Because ................................................................................................... 253Achille C. Varzi

19 Why Metaphysicians Do Not Explain ................................................. 257Ingar Brinck, Göran Hermerén, Johannes Persson and Nils-Eric Sahlin

20 Science and Metaphysics: The Case of Quantum Physics ................ 267Michael Esfeld

Part II History of Philosophy

21 Bolzano’s Lehrjahre .............................................................................. 289Jan Sebestik

22 Bolzano Versus Kant: Mathematics as a Scientia Universalis .......... 295Paola Cantù

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23 Le direct et l’oblique: sur quelques aspects antiques et médiévaux de la théorie brentanienne des relatifs ............................. 317Alain de Libera

24 Austrian Philosophy and its Institutions: Remarks on the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888–1938) ........ 349Denis Fisette

25 La noción del valor en la filosofía de Meinong ................................... 375Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

26 Austrian and Hungarian Philosophy: On the Logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler ....................................................................... 387Barry Smith

27 Winnowing Wittgenstein: What’s Worth Salvaging from the Wreck of the Tractatus .................................................................... 407Peter Simons

28 Wittgenstein, ses prédécesseurs et ses contemporains ....................... 423Mélika Ouelbani

29 Wittgenstein on Heidegger and Cosmic Emotions ............................. 435Mathieu Marion

30 Le dogme de la vérité selon Parménide ............................................... 459Jean-Maurice Monnoyer

31 The Mind–Body Problem in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty ................ 471Roberta Lanfredini

32 Locke and the Problem of Weakness of the Will ................................ 483Richard Glauser

33 Bergson, Truth-making, and the Retrograde Movement of the True .................................................................................................. 501Daniel Schulthess

Kevin Mulligan’s Bibliography .................................................................... 513

Index ............................................................................................................... 529

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Contributors

Arianna Betti Department of Philosophy/Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Philipp Blum Swiss National Science Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

Andrea C. Bottani Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

Ingar Brinck Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Paola Cantù Centre d’Epistémologie et d’Ergologie Comparatives, Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS, UMR7304, Aix-en-Provence, France

François Clementz CEPERC—UMR 7304, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

Fabrice Correia University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Damiano Costa University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Alain de Libera Collège de France, Paris, France

Michael Esfeld Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Denis Fisette Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Richard Glauser University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Göran Hermerén Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Herbert Hochberg University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Ingvar Johansson Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Roberta Lanfredini University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Jessica Leech Department of philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Keith Lehrer University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Paolo Leonardi Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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Pierre Livet Université de Provence, Provence, France

Fraser MacBride University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Mathieu Marion Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Jean-Maurice Monnoyer SEMa, Département de philosophie, Aix Marseille University, (Institut d’Histoire de la Philosophie), Aix en Provence, France

Mélika Ouelbani Université de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisie

Johannes Persson Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Anne Reboul Laboratory on Language, the Brain and Cognition (L2C2, CNRS UMR5304), Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France

Nils-Eric Sahlin Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Benjamin Schnieder Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Daniel Schulthess Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Jan Sebestik Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS, Paris, France

Peter Simons Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Barry Smith University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Johannes Stern Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

Joseph Tolliver University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Achille C. Varzi Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Philipps Universität Marburg, Alemania, Germany

Jan Woleński Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland