What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?

Hüttemann, Andreas

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“…The same principle continues up and down the hierarchy of existence … perhaps all the way down, ad infinitum; i.e. under this metaphysics there is no ultimate level (Hüttemann, 2003;Schaffer, 2003;Montero, 2006). So Nature -the stuff -is infinitely divisible, there are patterns within patterns, 18 and these can be revealed endlessly as we investigate in increasingly microscopic detail (although as we descend, the patterns persist for increasingly brief periods too: e.g.…”

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The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

Rose¹

2021

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Enactivism is a major research programme in the philosophy of perception. Yet its metaphysical status is unclear, since it is claimed to avoid both idealism and realism yet still has aspects of both within it. One attempt to solve this conundrum is based on the fusion of enactivism with phenomenology and the mathematical concept of symmetry breaking (Moss Brender, 2013). I suggest this is not entirely successful and propose it needs the addition of a multi-level, non-reductive metaphysics (for example, Informational Structural Realism). The processes we commonly call ‘perception’ are causal transfers of information at certain levels in the hierarchy of meaningful structures that comprise physical reality. Phenomenologists could use the word ‘perception’ metaphorically across all levels, although realists need not do so.

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The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

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2021

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“…For the scientific validity of equations like the foregoing appear to be among the best evidence of dispositionalism. Moreover, a central theme of dispositionalist advocacy is the ability of dispositional properties to illuminate known characteristics of lawlike generalisations such as those listed above (Harré and Madden 1974;Cartwright 1983Cartwright , 1999Cartwright , 2019Chakravartty 2003;Hüttemann 2004Hüttemann , 2014Kistler 2012Kistler , 2020Vetter 2015. 2 So let's grant the legitimacy of the above powers.…”

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Megarian Variable Actualism

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2021

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Megarian Actualism is the denial of unmanifesting powers. Aristotle called such a view ‘buffoonery’ and dispositionalists have provided compelling reasons for the contrary platitude that powers need not manifest. Even so, drawing on extant treatments of quantitative powers I’ll suggest that many of the powers which feature in quantitative lawlike equations are plausibly interpreted as Megarian. This is because the powers described by such equations are best understood as being directed towards all the values of exhaustive manifestation variables. I’ll discuss the prospects for generalising these Megarian characteristics to powers not typically represented in strict quantitative terms. The result will be a strong basis for a scientifically informed and plausible dispositionalist account: Megarian Variable Actualism.

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“…Wozu eine Störungstheorie der Kausalität?1 Sebastian Schmoranzer resümiert seine Diskussion der Störungstheorie der Kausalität, die ich in (Hüttemann 2013) 2 Andere Autoren, die ebenfalls eine Störungstheorie der Kausalität angedeutet, ver treten oder diskutiert haben sind: Mach (1896, 430), Hart und Honoré (1959, 27), wortlichkeit setzt voraus, dass die Handlung der Person, die Folgen auch tatsächlich verursacht hat.…”

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Wozu eine Störungstheorie der Kausalität?

Hüttemann¹

2015

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What's Wrong With Microphysicalism?

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The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

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Wozu eine Störungstheorie der Kausalität?

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