Peter Simons

Biographic Data

ID5233303
NAMEPeter Simons
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMESimons
SIGNATURESIMONS P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0002-5562-7711
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS92
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEJournal of History2022

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  • Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by Jason Weems

    Peter Šimon, Peter SimonsARTICLETechnology and Culture2017

    Reviewed by: Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwestby Jason Weems Peter Simons (bio) Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest. by Jason Weems. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. 368. $35. The opening image of Barnstorming the Prairiesdepicts an airborne businessman looking out at a patchwork of farm fields, evoking the airplane's transformation of the Midwest into flyover country.…

  • The Ontology and Logic of Higher-Order Multitudes

    Peter SimonsCHAPTERUnity and Plurality2016

    This chapter argues on the basis of examples, and the crucial role of difference as a generating notion, for the ontological acceptance of higher-order multitudes, that is, multitudes whose members are not individuals, but other multitudes. Introducing terms for these into a language requires a radical extension of standard logic to deal with them. Since ontological intuitions underdetermine the logic required, the chapter distinguishes core logi…

  • Meaning and Dummett's Austrians

    Peter SimonsCHAPTERDummett on Analytical Philosophy2015

    Ursprünge der analytischen Philosophie 1 and in an enlarged English version in 1993 as Origins of Analytical Philosophy, 2 constitute a very minor part of his oeuvre.None of the essays in the 2007 Library of Living Philosophers volume 3 mentions them, which is fair enough, since the vast bulk of Dummett's considerable achievements lie elsewhere.However they are notable for two reasons.Firstly, they illustrate Dummett's interest in the roots of th…

  • Łukasiewicz and the Several Senses of Possibility

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEEuropean Review2015

    The most famous achievement of Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956) was to give the first rigorous formulation of many-valued logic. In this paper I discuss his motivations for this, which were philosophical, and the legacy of his work

  • External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency

    Peter Šimon, Anna Marmodoro et al.BOOKMetaphysics of Relations2015Cited by: 3

    This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their su…

  • Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics

    Open AccessKit Fine, Tim Crane et al.BOOKContemporary Aristotelian…2011

    Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories,…

  • The Routledge companion to metaphysics

    Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons et al.BOOKThe Routledge companion to…2009

  • Ontology Meets Ontologies: Philosophers as Healers

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEMetascience2009

  • Coincidence and Kite-Flying

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEMetascience2009

  • Twardowski On Truth

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEThe Baltic International Yearbook…2008References: 1

    Of those students of Franz Brentano who went on to become professional philo­sophers, Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is much less well-known than his older contemporaries Edmund Husserl and Alexius Meinong. Yet in terms of the importance of his contribution to the history of philosophy, he ranks among Brentano’s students behind at most those two, possibly only behind Husserl. The chief contribution of Twardowski to global philosophy came indire…

  • Truth in virtue of meaning

    Peter SimonsCHAPTERMetaphysics and Truthmakers2007

  • Processing Whitehead

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEMetascience2006

  • The Logic of Location

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLESynthese2006Cited by: 1References: 4

  • The Reach of Correspondence: Two Kinds of Categories

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEDialogue2005References: 2

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  • Extended Simples: A Third Way Between Atoms and Gunk

    Peter Simons, Sherwood J B SugdenARTICLEThe Monist2004

    I argue that the assumptions that physically basic things are either mereologically atomic, or that they are continuous and there are no atoms, both face difficult conceptual problems. Both views tend to presuppose a largely unquestioned assumption, that things have parts corresponding to the geometric parts of the regions they occupy. To avoid these problems I propose a third view, that physically simple things occupy a finite volume without the…

  • Bocheński and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy

    Open AccessPeter SimonsARTICLEStudies in East European Thought2003

  • Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality

    Myles F Burnyeat, Myles Burnyeat et al.BOOKAncient and Medieval Theories of…2001

  • Applied Ethics in a Troubled World

    Open AccessPeter M Simons, Peter and Simons et al.BOOKApplied Ethics in a Troubled World1998

  • Farewell to Substance: A Differentiated Leave‐Taking

    Open AccessPeter M Simons, Peter SimonsARTICLERatio1998

    For most of the history of metaphysics, the subject has been dominated by the concept of substance. There is an everyday commonsense notion of substance which is perfectly harmless and which I shall defend against attempts to remove it or revise it away. But I deny that substance has to be construed as a primitive even in everyday terms. Borrowing Strawson’s distinction between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, I press the legitimate claim…

  • Nominalism in Poland

    Peter M Simons, Peter SimonsCHAPTERLeśniewski's Systems Protothetic1998

  • Holes and Other Superficialities

    Peter Simons, Roberto Casati et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1997Cited by: 1

  • Martin Kusch, Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge . London, Routledge, 1995

    Peter SimonsARTICLEThe British Journal for the…1997

  • Formal Ontology

    Open AccessPeter M Simons, Roberto Poli et al.BOOKFormal Ontology1996

  • The Importance of Joint Respect: Interplanetary Thoughts on a Naturalistic Account of Naturalness

    Peter Simons, Eli HirschARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1996