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These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth
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This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology
Explanation, Causation and Deduction
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The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has tradition
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Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism
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This essay proposes that Hume’s non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a fo