Abraham D Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1183916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham D Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham D |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7978-6963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Concrete creationism about fictional things
Proponents of fictional realism hold that there really are fictional things. But they do not, of course, maintain that these are the kind of things that the fiction appears to describe. They would not say that Sherlock Holmes, for example, is a concrete, actually existent detective: rather, Sherlock Holmes is something else – an abstractum, say, or a Meinongian non-existent. This thing has properties quite different from the in-the-fiction proper…
On the sources and implications of Carnap’s Der Raum
Avicenna's Theory of Primary Mixture
Ancient Peripatetics and Neoplatonists had great difficulty coming up with a consistent, interpretatively reasonable, and empirically adequate Aristotelian theory of complete mixture or complexion. I explain some of the main problems, with special attention to authors with whom Avicenna was familiar. I then show how Avicenna used a new doctrine of the occultness of substantial form (whose roots are found in Alfarabi) to address these problems. Th…
The Continental Origins of Verificationism
Verificationism, in the strictest sense, is the doctrine that the truth or falsity of every cognitively meaningful statement can be decided by finitely many possible observations. The system of Car
Specific and Generic Objects in Cavell and Thomas Aquinas
Here I establish a parallel between modern epistemology and traditional metaphysics: between the way we know an object, on the one hand, and the way an object's causes cause it to exist, on the other. I show that different efficient causes in the Thomistic system correspond to different questions of knowledge, as analyzed by Stanley Cavell, and that in particular the question the Cavellian skeptic asks corresponds to God's causation in creation. …
On Husserl and Cavellian Scepticism
Journal Article On Husserl and Cavellian Scepticism Get access Abraham D. Stone Abraham D. Stone Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 198, January 2000, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00163 Published: 07 January 2003
Does the Bohm Theory Solve the Measurement Problem
When classical mechanics is seen as the short-wavelength limit of quantum mechanics (i.e., as the limit of geometrical optics), it becomes clear just how serious and all-pervasive the measurement problem is. This formulation also leads us into the Bohm theory. But this theory has drawbacks: its nonuniqueness, in particular, and its nonlocality. I argue that these both reflect an underlying problem concerning information, which is actually a deepe…
Does the Bohm Theory Solve the Measurement Problem
When classical mechanics is seen as the short-wavelength limit of quantum mechanics (i.e., as the limit of geometrical optics), it becomes clear just how serious and all-pervasive the measurement problem is. This formulation also leads us into the Bohm theory. But this theory has drawbacks: its nonuniqueness, in particular, and its nonlocality. I argue that these both reflect an underlying problem concerning information, which is actually a deepe…
The Continental Origins of Verificationism
Verificationism, in the strictest sense, is the doctrine that the truth or falsity of every cognitively meaningful statement can be decided by finitely many possible observations. The system of Car
Does the Bohm Theory Solve the Measurement Problem
When classical mechanics is seen as the short-wavelength limit of quantum mechanics (i.e., as the limit of geometrical optics), it becomes clear just how serious and all-pervasive the measurement problem is. This formulation also leads us into the Bohm theory. But this theory has drawbacks: its nonuniqueness, in particular, and its nonlocality. I argue that these both reflect an underlying problem concerning information, which is actually a deepe…
On Husserl and Cavellian Scepticism
Journal Article On Husserl and Cavellian Scepticism Get access Abraham D. Stone Abraham D. Stone Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 198, January 2000, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00163 Published: 07 January 2003
Specific and Generic Objects in Cavell and Thomas Aquinas
Here I establish a parallel between modern epistemology and traditional metaphysics: between the way we know an object, on the one hand, and the way an object's causes cause it to exist, on the other. I show that different efficient causes in the Thomistic system correspond to different questions of knowledge, as analyzed by Stanley Cavell, and that in particular the question the Cavellian skeptic asks corresponds to God's causation in creation. …
The Continental Origins of Verificationism
Verificationism, in the strictest sense, is the doctrine that the truth or falsity of every cognitively meaningful statement can be decided by finitely many possible observations. The system of Car
Avicenna's Theory of Primary Mixture
Ancient Peripatetics and Neoplatonists had great difficulty coming up with a consistent, interpretatively reasonable, and empirically adequate Aristotelian theory of complete mixture or complexion. I explain some of the main problems, with special attention to authors with whom Avicenna was familiar. I then show how Avicenna used a new doctrine of the occultness of substantial form (whose roots are found in Alfarabi) to address these problems. Th…
On the sources and implications of Carnap’s Der Raum
Concrete creationism about fictional things
Proponents of fictional realism hold that there really are fictional things. But they do not, of course, maintain that these are the kind of things that the fiction appears to describe. They would not say that Sherlock Holmes, for example, is a concrete, actually existent detective: rather, Sherlock Holmes is something else – an abstractum, say, or a Meinongian non-existent. This thing has properties quite different from the in-the-fiction proper…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (3 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Skepticism (2 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (2 works)