Kelly Trogdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Trogdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Trogdon |
| SIGNATURE | TROGDON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3402-6570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complete Artworks without Authors
Genetically complete yet authorless artworks seem possible, yet it is hard to understand how they might really be possible. A natural way to try to resolve this puzzle is by constructing an account of artwork completion on the model of accounts of artwork meaning that are compatible with meaningful yet authorless artworks. However, I argue that such an account of artwork completion is implausible. Therefore, I leave the puzzle unresolved
Full and Partial Grounding
While controversy about the nature of grounding abounds, our focus is on a question for which a particular answer has attracted something like a consensus. The question concerns the relation between partial grounding and full grounding. The apparent consensus is that the former is to be defined in terms of the latter. In this article, we argue that the standard way of doing this faces a significant problem and that we ought to pursue the reverse …
Should explanation be a guide to ground
The Fragmentation of Being
According to ontological pluralism, being isn't univocal—there is more than one kind of being or way to exist. And let ontological degreeism be the view that being is gradable—some entities enjoy more being or a greater degree of existence than others. Being fragments just in case either ontological pluralism or degreeism is true. While the idea that being fragments has played an import role in the history of philosophy, it's perhaps an understat…
Revelation and physicalism
Priority monism
According to priority monism, there are many concrete entities and there is one, the cosmos, that is ontologically prior to all the others. I begin by clarifying this thesis as well as its main rival, priority atomism. I show how the disagreement between the priority monist and atomist ultimately turns on how the thesis of concrete foundationalism is implemented. While it's standard to interpret priority monism as being metaphysically noncontinge…
Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?
Recent interest in the nature of grounding is due in part to the idea that purely modal notions are too coarse‐grained to capture what we have in mind when we say that one thing is grounded in another. Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal consequences. Is grounding a necessary relation? In this article I argue that the answer is ‘yes’ in the sense that propositions corresponding to full ground…
Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
Book Review| April 01 2009 Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness Daniel Stoljar, Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 249 pp. Kelly Trogdon Kelly Trogdon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 269–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-053 Views Icon View…
Intrinsicality without Naturalness
Rae Langton and David Lewis have proposed an account of "intrinsic property" that makes use of two notions: being independent of accompaniment and being natural. We find the appeal to the first of these promising; the second notion, however, we find mystifying. In this paper we argue that the appeal to naturalness is not acceptable and offer an alternative definition of intrinsicality. The alternative definition makes crucial use of a notion comm…
Intrinsicality without Naturalness
Rae Langton and David Lewis have proposed an account of "intrinsic property" that makes use of two notions: being independent of accompaniment and being natural. We find the appeal to the first of these promising; the second notion, however, we find mystifying. In this paper we argue that the appeal to naturalness is not acceptable and offer an alternative definition of intrinsicality. The alternative definition makes crucial use of a notion comm…
Revelation and physicalism
Priority monism
According to priority monism, there are many concrete entities and there is one, the cosmos, that is ontologically prior to all the others. I begin by clarifying this thesis as well as its main rival, priority atomism. I show how the disagreement between the priority monist and atomist ultimately turns on how the thesis of concrete foundationalism is implemented. While it's standard to interpret priority monism as being metaphysically noncontinge…
Intrinsicality without Naturalness
Rae Langton and David Lewis have proposed an account of "intrinsic property" that makes use of two notions: being independent of accompaniment and being natural. We find the appeal to the first of these promising; the second notion, however, we find mystifying. In this paper we argue that the appeal to naturalness is not acceptable and offer an alternative definition of intrinsicality. The alternative definition makes crucial use of a notion comm…
Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
Book Review| April 01 2009 Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness Daniel Stoljar, Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 249 pp. Kelly Trogdon Kelly Trogdon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 269–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-053 Views Icon View…
Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?
Recent interest in the nature of grounding is due in part to the idea that purely modal notions are too coarse‐grained to capture what we have in mind when we say that one thing is grounded in another. Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal consequences. Is grounding a necessary relation? In this article I argue that the answer is ‘yes’ in the sense that propositions corresponding to full ground…
Revelation and physicalism
Priority monism
According to priority monism, there are many concrete entities and there is one, the cosmos, that is ontologically prior to all the others. I begin by clarifying this thesis as well as its main rival, priority atomism. I show how the disagreement between the priority monist and atomist ultimately turns on how the thesis of concrete foundationalism is implemented. While it's standard to interpret priority monism as being metaphysically noncontinge…
The Fragmentation of Being
According to ontological pluralism, being isn't univocal—there is more than one kind of being or way to exist. And let ontological degreeism be the view that being is gradable—some entities enjoy more being or a greater degree of existence than others. Being fragments just in case either ontological pluralism or degreeism is true. While the idea that being fragments has played an import role in the history of philosophy, it's perhaps an understat…
Full and Partial Grounding
While controversy about the nature of grounding abounds, our focus is on a question for which a particular answer has attracted something like a consensus. The question concerns the relation between partial grounding and full grounding. The apparent consensus is that the former is to be defined in terms of the latter. In this article, we argue that the standard way of doing this faces a significant problem and that we ought to pursue the reverse …
Should explanation be a guide to ground
Complete Artworks without Authors
Genetically complete yet authorless artworks seem possible, yet it is hard to understand how they might really be possible. A natural way to try to resolve this puzzle is by constructing an account of artwork completion on the model of accounts of artwork meaning that are compatible with meaningful yet authorless artworks. However, I argue that such an account of artwork completion is implausible. Therefore, I leave the puzzle unresolved
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Ground (3 works)