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Category: Metaphysics

Posted on January 29, 2019February 28, 2019

Externalism: A Failed Attempt to Escape Skeptical Anxiety

Ellie shows the inadequacy of externalism

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Posted on January 28, 2019February 28, 2019

Why We Can’t Escape Reality

Henry outlines the limits of escape.

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Posted on January 17, 2019November 21, 2019

Transhumanism: How to Escape Your Species

David examines the limits of the human form.

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Posted on December 25, 2018November 21, 2019

Hobbes and the Precarity of Scientific Knowledge

Varun analyzes how scientific knowledge is created.

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Posted on December 18, 2018November 21, 2019

The Trouble with Time “Flowing”

Anna explains the metaphysical troubles with time “passing.”

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Posted on December 4, 2018November 21, 2019

Understanding Art as Contingent: a Linguistic Approach to Metaphysics

Natalie takes a Wittgensteinian approach to the question “What is art?”

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Posted on September 13, 2018September 13, 2018

A Boundary Concept: Kant’s Thing-in-Itself as a Regulative Idea

By Amogha Sahu, University of Toronto Abstract: In this paper, I will analyze Kant’s concept of the ‘thing-in-itself.’ I will begin by providing a summary of Kant’s metaphysics leading into…

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Posted on August 22, 2018October 29, 2018

Indefiniteness, Infinity, and Descartes’s Cosmological Argument

By Charlie Schmidt, University of Colorado Boulder 1. Introduction Descartes’s Third Meditation presents a cosmological argument that has likely received more attention than any other alleged proof of God ever…

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