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We present an exemplary study in Computational Metaphysics, which is an emerging, interdisciplinary field aiming at the rigorous formalisation and deep logical assessment of rational, philosophical arguments on the computer. The particular focus here is on the ontological argument for the existence of God. While related work [9, 7] has concentrated on Anselm’s simpler original version of the on...

When dealing with hierarchical systems that are selfreferential and display inter-level effects, the notion of causality must be reconceptualized in terms other than that of the billiard ball, collision conception that is the legacy of mechanism. Understanding all cause as collision like, and the explanatory ideal as deduction from deterministic laws, are part of a trend that has characterized ...

Abstract With the publication of Husserliana series and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe both nearing completion, a strikingly different picture their work than was available to earlier generations is emerging. It has become quite clear that phenomenological philosophy not fixed “system” but an ongoing philosophical practice much contribute debates in contemporary generally. would be impossible here c...

Read and Neil Tennant for helpful comments and discussions on topics related to this work. Drafts of Chapters 5 and 6 were written during a research stay at the Department of Logic and Metaphysics of the University of St. Andrews in Spring 1985. I am grateful to the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for supporting this stay with a travel grant. I should like to thank my colleagues, especially Gereon Wolte...