Byron Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6050-7693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ontological Pluralism and the Generic Conception of Being
Should an Ontological Pluralist Be a Quantificational Pluralist
Ontological pluralism is the view that there are different fundamental ways of being. Recent defenders of this view—such as Kris McDaniel and Jason Turner—have taken these ways of being to be best captured by semantically primitive quantifier expressions ranging over different domains. They have thus endorsed, what I shall call, quantificational pluralism. I argue that this focus on quantification is a mistake. For, on this view, a quantification…
A thousand pleasures are not worth a single pain
Pessimism is, roughly, the view that life is not worth living. In chapter 46 of the second volume of The World as Will and Representation , Arthur Schopenhauer provides an oft‐neglected argument for this view. The argument is that a life is worth living only if it does not contain any uncompensated evils; but since all our lives happen to contain such evils, none of them are worth living. The now standard interpretation of this argument (endorsed…
Fundamental non-qualitative properties
Impure concepts and non-qualitative properties
Impure concepts and non-qualitative properties
A thousand pleasures are not worth a single pain
Pessimism is, roughly, the view that life is not worth living. In chapter 46 of the second volume of The World as Will and Representation , Arthur Schopenhauer provides an oft‐neglected argument for this view. The argument is that a life is worth living only if it does not contain any uncompensated evils; but since all our lives happen to contain such evils, none of them are worth living. The now standard interpretation of this argument (endorsed…
Fundamental non-qualitative properties
Ontological Pluralism and the Generic Conception of Being
Should an Ontological Pluralist Be a Quantificational Pluralist
Ontological pluralism is the view that there are different fundamental ways of being. Recent defenders of this view—such as Kris McDaniel and Jason Turner—have taken these ways of being to be best captured by semantically primitive quantifier expressions ranging over different domains. They have thus endorsed, what I shall call, quantificational pluralism. I argue that this focus on quantification is a mistake. For, on this view, a quantification…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)