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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vintiadis, Elly (Editor), Mekios, Constantinos (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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.