Heather Dyke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Dyke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyke |
| SIGNATURE | DYKE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3246-5315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Neutral Realism: A New Metaphysical Approach to Representation
Metaphysics seeks an account of fundamental reality as it is independent of any observer or point of view. As such, one problem it faces is that any such account is necessarily created by some observer from some point of view. Does this mean that metaphysics is thereby inherently impossible? Or inherently incomplete? I argue that it is possible and it can aim at completeness, but it must acknowledge the contributions made by the human perspective…
Weak neo‐Whorfianism and the philosophy of time
According to a thesis I call the linguistic assumption , the structure of language is a guide to the fundamental nature of reality. It is deployed in the metaphysical debate over the nature of time. In that debate, it is more radical than the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, and should be rejected. A weak interpretation of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis makes the empirical claim that speakers of different languages experience, perceive, or think about aspects…
A Refutation of Memory Circularity
Meaning Diminished: Toward Metaphysically Modest Semantics
In this short but wide-ranging monograph, Kenneth Taylor makes a case for a diminished role for semantics and linguistics in metaphysical theorizing. He argues for the broadly negative conclusion that considerations about language cannot tell us much about the fundamental nature of reality. One might think such a conclusion hardly worth stating, and yet the idea that we can discover metaphysical insights by investigating language has had a remark…
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection
Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.
A Future for Presentism - Craig Bourne
Presentism, the view that only present entities exist, is a theory in the ascendant, and this book, a defence of presentism, will contribute to its rise. It is a clear and well argued monograph which systematically develops a metaphysical theory of presentism, and ably defends it against common objections. Most significantly, Bourne defends his theory against the criticism that presentism is false because it is inconsistent with the special theor…
Temporal Language and Temporal Reality
It has recently been argued that the new B‐theory of time argues invalidly from the claim that tensed sentences have tenseless truth‐conditions to the conclusion that temporal reality is tenseless. But while early B‐theorists may have relied on some such inference, new B‐theorists do not. Giving tenseless truth‐conditions for tensed sentences is not intended to prove that temporal reality is tenseless. Rather it is intended to undermine the A‐the…
Time, Reality & Experience
Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? How does time relate to free will? Could science do away with time? These questions and others about time are among the most puzzling problems in philosophy and science. In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers propose novel answers to these and other questi…
Tokens, Dates And Tenseless Truth Conditions
Time, Reality & Experience
Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? How does time relate to free will? Could science do away with time? These questions and others about time are among the most puzzling problems in philosophy and science. In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers propose novel answers to these and other questi…
Tokens, Dates And Tenseless Truth Conditions
Temporal Language and Temporal Reality
It has recently been argued that the new B‐theory of time argues invalidly from the claim that tensed sentences have tenseless truth‐conditions to the conclusion that temporal reality is tenseless. But while early B‐theorists may have relied on some such inference, new B‐theorists do not. Giving tenseless truth‐conditions for tensed sentences is not intended to prove that temporal reality is tenseless. Rather it is intended to undermine the A‐the…
A Future for Presentism - Craig Bourne
Presentism, the view that only present entities exist, is a theory in the ascendant, and this book, a defence of presentism, will contribute to its rise. It is a clear and well argued monograph which systematically develops a metaphysical theory of presentism, and ably defends it against common objections. Most significantly, Bourne defends his theory against the criticism that presentism is false because it is inconsistent with the special theor…
Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection
Meaning Diminished: Toward Metaphysically Modest Semantics
In this short but wide-ranging monograph, Kenneth Taylor makes a case for a diminished role for semantics and linguistics in metaphysical theorizing. He argues for the broadly negative conclusion that considerations about language cannot tell us much about the fundamental nature of reality. One might think such a conclusion hardly worth stating, and yet the idea that we can discover metaphysical insights by investigating language has had a remark…
Weak neo‐Whorfianism and the philosophy of time
According to a thesis I call the linguistic assumption , the structure of language is a guide to the fundamental nature of reality. It is deployed in the metaphysical debate over the nature of time. In that debate, it is more radical than the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, and should be rejected. A weak interpretation of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis makes the empirical claim that speakers of different languages experience, perceive, or think about aspects…
A Refutation of Memory Circularity
Neutral Realism: A New Metaphysical Approach to Representation
Metaphysics seeks an account of fundamental reality as it is independent of any observer or point of view. As such, one problem it faces is that any such account is necessarily created by some observer from some point of view. Does this mean that metaphysics is thereby inherently impossible? Or inherently incomplete? I argue that it is possible and it can aim at completeness, but it must acknowledge the contributions made by the human perspective…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Metaphysics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy of language (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works)