Paul Audi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Audi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Audi |
| SIGNATURE | AUDI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8652-9893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
L’Université et l’Amérique
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
Présentation
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
Baisser la tête et se couvrir
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
A trope‐theoretic solution to the missing value problem
One metaphysical problem about laws is how to find appropriate truthmakers for fully general functional laws. What makes it true, for instance, that an uninstantiated mass would interact with others as prescribed by laws concerning mass? This is the missing value problem. D. M. Armstrong attempted to solve it by appeal to determinable universals. I will offer a trope‐theoretic solution that, while in some ways more metaphysically adventurous than…
Présentation
Tropes and qualitative change
This paper presents the view that tropes can change, and so are not individuated by their determinate qualitative characters. On the view I have in mind, a trope is at any given time fully determinate, but can change qualitatively within the bounds set by a determinable essence. A charge trope, for example, must at any time have some exact intensity, but can survive changes in intensity. My argument, roughly, is this: Objects can change, and trop…
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles
L’extra-phénoménalité à l’épreuve de la solitude
Hors phénomène prétend à une « philosophie créatrice ». Or c’est bien ce pas, quasi nietzschéen, qu’accomplit Emmanuel Falque en distinguant l’ infra -phénoménal, le supra -phénoménal et l’ extra -phénoménal. Il développe une « philosophie pour temps de crise » et ouvre un champ essentiel pour la pensée aujourd’hui. On se demandera cependant si un tel déport hors de la phénoménalité n’avait pas déjà été au moins aperçu par Martin Heidegger, non p…
Mémoires des pandémies
Why Truthmaking Is Not a Case of Grounding
Truthmaker theorists often express their core commitment by saying that truth is grounded in being, and grounding theorists often take truthmaking to be a paradigm case of grounding. But I will argue that truthmaking is not a case of grounding. What is crucial for understanding truthmaking is not grounding but rather meaning (in a broad sense including reference). Truth is still constrained by how things are, so even if (so‐called) truthmakers do…
L'amour est-il aussi désintéressé qu'on le dit
Prenant en considération certaines thèses formulées par Vladimir Jankélévitch, la discussion porte ici sur la question de savoir s'il est justifié ou non de soutenir l'idée d'une « pureté » du sentiment amoureux. Y a-t-il lieu de parler à ce sujet de « désintéressement » ? Qu'est-ce qui motive l'amour, dès lors qu'il surgit ? À l'arrière-plan se profile une autre question : celle du qui et du quoi de l'amour. La tentative de définition qui en déc…
Guerre à soi
Property Identity
The question of how properties are individuated is extremely important. Consider the following proposals. To be in pain is to be in a certain neurological state. To be red is to appear red to normal observers in standard conditions. To be obligatory is to maximize the good. Each makes a claim of property identity. Each is a substantive metaphysical thesis of wide interest. None can be studied with due scrutiny in the absence of a general account …
Figures de l'altérité
L’étranger divin qu’incarne Dionysos, l’étranger à soi que devient Rousseau dans le regard des autres, l’étranger barbare que décrit Lucien de Samosate, l’étranger du dehors qui n’habite pas la maison com-mune, l’étranger mis à distance par la constitution des morales, l’étranger en exil que célèbre l’Islam... qu’ont-ils donc en commun ? Et comment se distinguent-ils ? L’objet de ce travail à plusieurs voix n’est pas de construire une théorie. L’…
Grounding: Toward a Theory of the In-Virtue-Of Relation
A clarification and defense of the notion of grounding
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Questionnaire
Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization
According to the subset account of realization , a property, F , is realized by another property, G , whenever F is individuated by a non‐empty proper subset of the causal powers by which G is individuated (and F is not a conjunctive property of which G is a conjunct). This account is especially attractive because it seems both to explain the way in which realized properties are nothing over and above their realizers, and to provide for the causa…
Remarques sur le sentiment d'appartenance
Michel Henry
D'une compassion l'autre
Depuis l'Antiquité, le fait de prendre part à la souffrance d'autrui donne lieu à deux jugements moraux, l'un favorable, qui fait de la compassion un signe d'amour, l'autre défavorable, qui voit dans la pitié un signe de mépris. Mais aujourd'hui, le refus de compatir se présente comme la caractéristique des êtres inhumains. Pourquoi en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Il faut procéder à la généalogie de l'universalisation du rapport compassionnel pour co…
La forme de l'ivresse
Rousseau, éthique et passion
Why Truthmaking Is Not a Case of Grounding
Truthmaker theorists often express their core commitment by saying that truth is grounded in being, and grounding theorists often take truthmaking to be a paradigm case of grounding. But I will argue that truthmaking is not a case of grounding. What is crucial for understanding truthmaking is not grounding but rather meaning (in a broad sense including reference). Truth is still constrained by how things are, so even if (so‐called) truthmakers do…
Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization
According to the subset account of realization , a property, F , is realized by another property, G , whenever F is individuated by a non‐empty proper subset of the causal powers by which G is individuated (and F is not a conjunctive property of which G is a conjunct). This account is especially attractive because it seems both to explain the way in which realized properties are nothing over and above their realizers, and to provide for the causa…
Property Identity
The question of how properties are individuated is extremely important. Consider the following proposals. To be in pain is to be in a certain neurological state. To be red is to appear red to normal observers in standard conditions. To be obligatory is to maximize the good. Each makes a claim of property identity. Each is a substantive metaphysical thesis of wide interest. None can be studied with due scrutiny in the absence of a general account …
D'une compassion l'autre
Depuis l'Antiquité, le fait de prendre part à la souffrance d'autrui donne lieu à deux jugements moraux, l'un favorable, qui fait de la compassion un signe d'amour, l'autre défavorable, qui voit dans la pitié un signe de mépris. Mais aujourd'hui, le refus de compatir se présente comme la caractéristique des êtres inhumains. Pourquoi en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Il faut procéder à la généalogie de l'universalisation du rapport compassionnel pour co…
Rousseau, éthique et passion
La forme de l'ivresse
Michel Henry
D'une compassion l'autre
Depuis l'Antiquité, le fait de prendre part à la souffrance d'autrui donne lieu à deux jugements moraux, l'un favorable, qui fait de la compassion un signe d'amour, l'autre défavorable, qui voit dans la pitié un signe de mépris. Mais aujourd'hui, le refus de compatir se présente comme la caractéristique des êtres inhumains. Pourquoi en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Il faut procéder à la généalogie de l'universalisation du rapport compassionnel pour co…
Remarques sur le sentiment d'appartenance
Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization
According to the subset account of realization , a property, F , is realized by another property, G , whenever F is individuated by a non‐empty proper subset of the causal powers by which G is individuated (and F is not a conjunctive property of which G is a conjunct). This account is especially attractive because it seems both to explain the way in which realized properties are nothing over and above their realizers, and to provide for the causa…
Grounding: Toward a Theory of the In-Virtue-Of Relation
A clarification and defense of the notion of grounding
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Questionnaire
Figures de l'altérité
L’étranger divin qu’incarne Dionysos, l’étranger à soi que devient Rousseau dans le regard des autres, l’étranger barbare que décrit Lucien de Samosate, l’étranger du dehors qui n’habite pas la maison com-mune, l’étranger mis à distance par la constitution des morales, l’étranger en exil que célèbre l’Islam... qu’ont-ils donc en commun ? Et comment se distinguent-ils ? L’objet de ce travail à plusieurs voix n’est pas de construire une théorie. L’…
Property Identity
The question of how properties are individuated is extremely important. Consider the following proposals. To be in pain is to be in a certain neurological state. To be red is to appear red to normal observers in standard conditions. To be obligatory is to maximize the good. Each makes a claim of property identity. Each is a substantive metaphysical thesis of wide interest. None can be studied with due scrutiny in the absence of a general account …
Guerre à soi
L'amour est-il aussi désintéressé qu'on le dit
Prenant en considération certaines thèses formulées par Vladimir Jankélévitch, la discussion porte ici sur la question de savoir s'il est justifié ou non de soutenir l'idée d'une « pureté » du sentiment amoureux. Y a-t-il lieu de parler à ce sujet de « désintéressement » ? Qu'est-ce qui motive l'amour, dès lors qu'il surgit ? À l'arrière-plan se profile une autre question : celle du qui et du quoi de l'amour. La tentative de définition qui en déc…
Why Truthmaking Is Not a Case of Grounding
Truthmaker theorists often express their core commitment by saying that truth is grounded in being, and grounding theorists often take truthmaking to be a paradigm case of grounding. But I will argue that truthmaking is not a case of grounding. What is crucial for understanding truthmaking is not grounding but rather meaning (in a broad sense including reference). Truth is still constrained by how things are, so even if (so‐called) truthmakers do…
Mémoires des pandémies
L’extra-phénoménalité à l’épreuve de la solitude
Hors phénomène prétend à une « philosophie créatrice ». Or c’est bien ce pas, quasi nietzschéen, qu’accomplit Emmanuel Falque en distinguant l’ infra -phénoménal, le supra -phénoménal et l’ extra -phénoménal. Il développe une « philosophie pour temps de crise » et ouvre un champ essentiel pour la pensée aujourd’hui. On se demandera cependant si un tel déport hors de la phénoménalité n’avait pas déjà été au moins aperçu par Martin Heidegger, non p…
Tropes and qualitative change
This paper presents the view that tropes can change, and so are not individuated by their determinate qualitative characters. On the view I have in mind, a trope is at any given time fully determinate, but can change qualitatively within the bounds set by a determinable essence. A charge trope, for example, must at any time have some exact intensity, but can survive changes in intensity. My argument, roughly, is this: Objects can change, and trop…
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles
L’Université et l’Amérique
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
Présentation
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
Baisser la tête et se couvrir
This article stems from the philosophy of education and training, with an intertextual and hermeneutic approach applied to a contemporary literary corpus. We are interested in the way in which something like a double focus on recent social mutations in Western societies in general and the cultures, imaginaries and trajectories of engineers within them in particular can give us food for thought on the formation of the latter and nourish a social h…
A trope‐theoretic solution to the missing value problem
One metaphysical problem about laws is how to find appropriate truthmakers for fully general functional laws. What makes it true, for instance, that an uninstantiated mass would interact with others as prescribed by laws concerning mass? This is the missing value problem. D. M. Armstrong attempted to solve it by appeal to determinable universals. I will offer a trope‐theoretic solution that, while in some ways more metaphysically adventurous than…
Présentation
Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (3 works) · Ground (3 works)