T Scott Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Scott Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | T Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lawrence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1767-4541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Accessibility and relative fundamentality
How to be a postmodal directionalist
According to directionalism, non-symmetric relations are distinct from their converses. Kit Fine (2000a) argues that the directionalist faces a dilemma; they must either (i) reject the principle Uniqueness, which states that no completion (fact, state of affairs, or proposition) is a completion of more than one relation, or (ii) reject the principle Identity, which states that each completion of a relation is identical to a completion of its conv…
Symmetric relations
Metaphysical foundherentism
Upward Grounding
Realists about universals face a question about grounding. Are things how they are because they instantiate the universals they do? Or do they instantiate those universals because they are how they are? Take Ebenezer Scrooge. You can say that (i) Scrooge is greedy because he instantiates greediness, or you can say that (ii) Scrooge instantiates greediness because he is greedy. I argue that there is reason to prefer the latter to the former. I dev…
Upward Grounding
Realists about universals face a question about grounding. Are things how they are because they instantiate the universals they do? Or do they instantiate those universals because they are how they are? Take Ebenezer Scrooge. You can say that (i) Scrooge is greedy because he instantiates greediness, or you can say that (ii) Scrooge instantiates greediness because he is greedy. I argue that there is reason to prefer the latter to the former. I dev…
Upward Grounding
Realists about universals face a question about grounding. Are things how they are because they instantiate the universals they do? Or do they instantiate those universals because they are how they are? Take Ebenezer Scrooge. You can say that (i) Scrooge is greedy because he instantiates greediness, or you can say that (ii) Scrooge instantiates greediness because he is greedy. I argue that there is reason to prefer the latter to the former. I dev…
Symmetric relations
Metaphysical foundherentism
How to be a postmodal directionalist
According to directionalism, non-symmetric relations are distinct from their converses. Kit Fine (2000a) argues that the directionalist faces a dilemma; they must either (i) reject the principle Uniqueness, which states that no completion (fact, state of affairs, or proposition) is a completion of more than one relation, or (ii) reject the principle Identity, which states that each completion of a relation is identical to a completion of its conv…
Accessibility and relative fundamentality
Epistemology (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Philosophy of language (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy of mind (2 works) · Proposition (2 works)