Three basic positions regarding the nature of fundamental properties are: dispositional monism, categorical monism and the mixed view. Dispositional monism apparently involves a regress or circularity, while an unpalatable consequence of categorical monism and the mixed view is that they are committed to quidditism. I discuss Alexander Bird's defence of dispositional monism based on the structu...

Firing another salvo in the on-going monism-dualism debate, Joel B. Green in his new book Body, Soul, and Human Life, presents his ontological monism, a rebuttal against anthropological dualism in general and against the holistic dualism in Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life by John W. Cooper in particular. Green’s anthropological monism, which “coheres well with Nancey Murphy’s argument . . . an...

Dual-aspect monism and neutral monism offer interesting alternatives to mainstream positions concerning the mind-matter problem. Both assume a domain underlying the mind-matter distinction, but they also differ in definitive ways. In the 20th century, variants of both positions have been advanced by a number of protagonists. One of these variants, the dual-aspect monism due to Wolfgang Pauli an...

highlighting the driving cause and its strict relationship with the formal cause and especially the final cause in the intrinsic elements of natural justice has caused the duality of reason and natural justice in the thinking of the proponents of the reason as the source. since the same emphasis makes the full understanding of the mechanisms of natural justice and its content for the human wisd...

Abstract Value pluralism is the metaphysical thesis that there a plurality of values at fundamental level evaluative domain. monism, on other hand, claim just one value. Pluralists, it commonly argued, have an edge over monists when comes to accounting for conspicuous heterogeneity domain and rationality regretting well-justified decisions. Monists, in turn, seem provide far more plausible acco...