Brute facts /
Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to give accounts of other facts or phenomena, and so they play a key role in many philosophers' views about the structure of the world. This volume explores neglected questions about the nature of bru...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Must there be brute facts? / John Heil
- How to make the case for brute facts / Elanor Taylor
- Bruteness and supervenience : mind vs. morality / Joseph Levine
- Brute necessity and the mind-body problem / James Van Cleve
- Are modal facts brute facts? / Dana Goswick
- Truthmaking and the mysteries of emergence / Kevin Morris
- Are there brute facts about consciousness? / Torin Alter
- The provenance of consciousness / Gerald Vision
- Brute facts about emergence / John Symons
- There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts / Elly Vintiadis
- Emergence : inexplicable but explanatory / Peter Wyss
- Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts / Mark H. Bickhard
- Emergence, downward causation, and no brute facts in biological systems / Argyris Arnellos, Charbel El-Hani.