Noa Latham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noa Latham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noa |
| FAMILY NAME | Latham |
| SIGNATURE | LATHAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?
This chapter focuses on the dispute between necessitarians and contingentists, mainly addressing the issue as to whether laws of nature are metaphysically necessary or metaphysically contingent with a weaker kind of necessity, commonly referred to as natural, nomological, or nomic necessity. It is assumed here that all fundamental properties are dispositional or role properties, making the dispute a strictly verbal one. The existence of categoric…
Three Compatible Theories of Desire
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Physicalism and its Discontents
Physicalism, a topic that has been central to modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. The physicalist will claim that all facts about the mind and the mental are physical facts and deny the existence of mental events and state insofar as these are thought of as independent of physical things, events and states. This collection of essays, first published i…
Davidson and kim on Psychophysical Laws
Davidson and kim on Psychophysical Laws
Physicalism and its Discontents
Physicalism, a topic that has been central to modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. The physicalist will claim that all facts about the mind and the mental are physical facts and deny the existence of mental events and state insofar as these are thought of as independent of physical things, events and states. This collection of essays, first published i…
Three Compatible Theories of Desire
An abstract 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
Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?
This chapter focuses on the dispute between necessitarians and contingentists, mainly addressing the issue as to whether laws of nature are metaphysically necessary or metaphysically contingent with a weaker kind of necessity, commonly referred to as natural, nomological, or nomic necessity. It is assumed here that all fundamental properties are dispositional or role properties, making the dispute a strictly verbal one. The existence of categoric…
Epistemology (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Categorical variable (1 work) · Causation (1 work)