Mind, Values, and Metaphysics Anne Reboul Editor Mind, Values, and Metaphysics Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan–Volume 1 2123 Editor Anne Reboul L2C2, CNRS UMR5304 Institute for Cognitive Sciences Bron Cedex France ISBN 978-3-319-04198-8 ISBN 978-3-319-04199-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04199-5 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014941197 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recita- tion, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or infor- mation storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar meth- odology now known or hereafter developed. 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K.M.: Tollendo Tollens “L’ennui est la marque des esprits médiocres.” (Albert I) Tous les jours je remets l’ouvrage sur le métier, Œuvrant à découvrir ce que cachent les ombres, Les poupées de Platon, les motifs avoués, Les illusions sucrées dans lesquelles l’esprit sombre. Et tous les jours encore je marche face au vent, Narguant les politiques de notre Alma Mater, Dirigeant l’étudiant au large du continent, Ou fessant le thésard un peu trop tête en l’air. Tant de temps a passé, et je combats encore, Oublieux de l’effort, dédaignant le repos. Les années je les donne, ma santé et mon or, La vérité le veut, la vérité le vaut. Et si parfois, j’avoue, je me trouve un peu las, Nulle autre destinée que la philosophie, Soyez-en convaincus, n’était faite pour moi. Qu’on soit donc prévenu, rien ne m’arrêtera, En prenant des années ma passion s’affermit. Dès lors je vous promets encore bien des éclats! Amanda Garcia University of Geneva, Switzerland Contents 1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 Anne Reboul Part I Metaphysics 2 Formal Objects and the Argument from Knowledge .......................... 19 Jessica Leech 3 T he Naming of Facts and the Methodology of Language- Based Metaphysics .................................................................................. 35 Arianna Betti 4 The Truth About Predicates and Connectives ...................................... 63 Johannes Stern 5 Truth-Makers and Convention T .......................................................... 79 Jan Woleński 6 From Grounding to Truth-Making: Some Thoughts ........................... 85 Fabrice Correia 7 Fundamental Ontology and Ontology of Epistemic Processes ........... 99 Pierre Livet 8 Tropes and Truth ..................................................................................... 109 Keith Lehrer and Joseph Tolliver 9 The Facts of Tropes ................................................................................. 117 Herbert Hochberg vii viii Contents 10 The Transcendental Metaphysic of G. F. Stout: His Defence and Elaboration of Trope Theory ........................................................ 141 Fraser MacBride 11 Two Problems for Resemblance Nominalism ..................................... 159 Andrea C. Bottani 12 Counting the Colours ............................................................................ 171 Benjamin Schnieder 13 Predication ............................................................................................. 185 Paolo Leonardi 14 Temporal Parts and Spatial Location ................................................. 199 Damiano Costa 15 Internal, Formal and Thin Relations .................................................. 207 François Clementz 16 All Relations Are Internal: The New Version ..................................... 225 Ingvar Johansson 17 Connectives, Prenectives and Dishonoured Cheques of Metaphysical Explanation .................................................................... 241 Philipp Blum 18 Because ................................................................................................... 253 Achille C. Varzi 19 Why Metaphysicians Do Not Explain ................................................. 257 Ingar Brinck, Göran Hermerén, Johannes Persson and Nils-Eric Sahlin 20 Science and Metaphysics: The Case of Quantum Physics ................ 267 Michael Esfeld Part II History of Philosophy 21 Bolzano’s Lehrjahre .............................................................................. 289 Jan Sebestik 22 Bolzano Versus Kant: Mathematics as a Scientia Universalis .......... 295 Paola Cantù Contents ix 23 Le direct et l’oblique: sur quelques aspects antiques et médiévaux de la théorie brentanienne des relatifs ............................. 317 Alain de Libera 24 Austrian Philosophy and its Institutions: Remarks on the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888–1938) ........ 349 Denis Fisette 25 La noción del valor en la filosofía de Meinong ................................... 375 Íngrid Vendrell Ferran 26 Austrian and Hungarian Philosophy: On the Logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler ....................................................................... 387 Barry Smith 27 W innowing Wittgenstein: What’s Worth Salvaging from the Wreck of the Tractatus .................................................................... 407 Peter Simons 28 Wittgenstein, ses prédécesseurs et ses contemporains ....................... 423 Mélika Ouelbani 29 Wittgenstein on Heidegger and Cosmic Emotions ............................. 435 Mathieu Marion 30 Le dogme de la vérité selon Parménide ............................................... 459 Jean-Maurice Monnoyer 31 The Mind–Body Problem in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty ................ 471 Roberta Lanfredini 32 Locke and the Problem of Weakness of the Will ................................ 483 Richard Glauser 33 Bergson, Truth-making, and the Retrograde Movement of the True .................................................................................................. 501 Daniel Schulthess Kevin Mulligan’s Bibliography .................................................................... 513 Index ............................................................................................................... 529 Contributors Arianna Betti Department of Philosophy/Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Philipp Blum Swiss National Science Foundation, Barcelona, Spain Andrea C. Bottani Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy Ingar Brinck Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Paola Cantù Centre d’Epistémologie et d’Ergologie Comparatives, Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS, UMR7304, Aix-en-Provence, France François Clementz CEPERC—UMR 7304, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France Fabrice Correia University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Damiano Costa University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Alain de Libera Collège de France, Paris, France Michael Esfeld Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Denis Fisette Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Richard Glauser University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Göran Hermerén Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Herbert Hochberg University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Ingvar Johansson Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Roberta Lanfredini University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy Jessica Leech Department of philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Keith Lehrer University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA Paolo Leonardi Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy xi