The first part of this paper presents an argument showing that the currently most highly acclaimed interventionist theory of causation, i.e. the one advanced by Woodward, excludes supervening macro properties from having a causal influence on effects of their micro supervenience bases. Moreover, this interventionist exclusion argument is demonstrated to rest on weaker premises than classical ex...

Physicalism -like other isms -has meant different things to different people. The main physicalistic thesis I will discuss here is the claim that all occurrences supervene on physical occurrences -that the physical events and states of affairs at a time determine everything that happens at that time. This synchronic claim has been discussed most in the context of the mind/body problem, but it i...

I argue that property dualists cannot hold that minds are physical substances. The focus of my discussion is a property dualism that takes qualia to be sui generis features of reality.

The Picone-type identity for the half-linear second order partial differential equation n i=1 ∂ ∂xi Φ ∂u ∂xi + c(x)Φ(u) = 0, Φ(u) := |u|u, p > 1, is established and some applications of this identity are suggested.

In this work we characterize the combinatorial metrics admitting a MacWilliams-type identity and describe the group of linear isometries of such metrics. Considering coverings that are not connected, we classify the metrics satisfying the MacWilliams extension property.

In this article, a Picone-type identity for the weighted p-biharmonic operator is established and comparison results for a class of half-linear partial differential equations of fourth order based on this identity are derived.

Recent work has demonstrated that Canadians overreport church attendance at rates similar to respondents in the United States. Overreporting in the United States has been attributed to the importance of religious identity; causes of Canadian overreporting have not been examined. This article draws upon Stryker’s identity theory to explain why Canadian survey respondents overreport church attend...

Abstract It is commonly maintained that neuroplastic mechanisms in the brain provide empirical support for hypothesis of multiple realizability. We show various case studies neuroplasticity stems from preexisting and processes inherent neural (or biochemical) structure brain. argue not only does fail to evidence realization, its inability do so strengthens mind-body identity theory. Finally, we...