Abstract What grounds facts of ground? Some metaphysicians invoke fundamental grounding laws to answer this question. These are general principles that link grounded their grounds. The main business paper is advance the debate about metaphysics by exploring prospects a plausible yet underexplored minimalist account, one which structurally analogous familiar Humean conception natural laws. In po...

ion, to the ‘movement’ of a detached frog’s leg. A teaching of this type might be developed in a number of ways. It is of course consistent with its central thought that the dictates of this virtue might, in respect of a given pair of agents, be massively aVected by some of the so-called social practices under which the pair happen together to fall. Similarly, Hume’s doctrine is consistent with...

Picturing is a poorly understood element of Sellars’s philosophical project. We diagnose the problem with picturing as follows: on one hand, it seems that must be connected action in order for to do its job. On other representational states system are characterized descriptive and seemingly static terms. How can terms action? To solve this problem, we adopt concept from recent work Sellarsian m...

The subject of this essay is the classical problem induction, which sometimes attributed to David Hume and called “the Humean Problem Induction.” Here, I examine a certain sort Neo-Aristotelian solution problem, appeals concept natural kinds in its response inductive skeptic. This position most notably represented by Howard Sankey Marc Lange. purpose paper partly destructive constructive. raise...

This text sets out one of the points that I make in a more comprehensive paper. For help and comments on the full version, I thank participants of the “Probability, Decision, Uncertainty” seminar in IHPST (Paris), the causality group in Ghent (in particular Bert Leuridan for extensive rereading) and Federica Russo. The research for this paper was supported by the Research Fund (BOF) of Ghent Un...

This essay responds to Badiou’s charge that Deleuze fails to set forth a philosophy that is “beyond categorical oppositions.” It is argued that this criticism of Deleuze is founded upon a misreading of the Deleuzean distinction between the virtual and the actual, a reading that carries forward Badiou’s misreading of Spinoza and, hence, of Deleuze’s Spinozism. With this corrected, we show how th...

Constructivism as a distinct metaethical position has garnered significant interest in recent years due part to Sharon Street’s theory, Humean constructivism. According account, practical reasons are constructed by individual valuing entities. On this view, then, whether particular reason applies an is completely contingent upon what that actually values. In article I argue for the recognition ...

Neuroscience has made enormous progress in understanding the brain and its various neuro-sensory and neuro-cognitive functions. However, despite all progress, the model of the brain as well as its ontological characterization remain unclear. The aim in this first paper is the discussion of an empirically plausible model of the brain with the subsequent claim of a neuro-ecological model. Whitehe...

Aims: The rate of adrenal mass detection has increased due to the development imaging modalities. It is vital differentiate benign adenomas from other masses in order establish whether an active management strategy essential. Volumetric CT histogram analysis calculates percentage covered pixels negative attenuation region. goal this research was evaluate diagnostic utility volume for tumors con...