Donald C Williams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3873549 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donald C Williams |
| PRENOMES | Donald C |
| SOBRENOME | Williams |
| ASSINATURA | WILLIAMS D C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1932 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How Reality is Reasonable
This chapter begins with a systematic presentation of the doctrine of actualism. According to actualism, all that exists is actual, determinate, and of one way of being. There are no possible objects, nor is there any indeterminacy in the world. In addition, there are no ways of being. It is proposed that actual entities stand in three fundamental relations: mereological, spatiotemporal, and resemblance relations. These relations govern the funda…
The Elements and Patterns of Being
This book collects six influential articles and six previously unpublished essays in metaphysics by Donald C. Williams. The first chapter is a defense of metaphysics. The second chapter is the classic statement of the ontology of abstract particulars or tropes. The third and fourth chapters expound a realist theory of universals based on trope ontology. The fifth is a systematic presentation of actualism—the view that the world is a four-dimensio…
The Elements of Being
This chapter concerns the nature of universals and of substance. The problem of universals invites us to explain how many things can be of the same kind. The nature of substance demands an account of how one thing can have many properties. It is argued that the solution to the problem of universals entails nothing more than the hypothesis that similar concrete particulars have distinct aspects or abstract parts that perfectly resemble each other.…
Reconsidering State and Society in Africa
Land is one the most fundamental components of agricultural, urban, and industrial development. In sub-Saharan Africa, like much of the rest of the Third world, ambitious land reform policies have become commonplace over the past three decades as one government after another has sought to free up land resources to meet national priorities. Whatever form it has taken, land reform often signifies only a single element in a larger trend involving th…
A Community Model of African Politics
The first years following independence in Africa were an exciting time for scholars who rushed off to observe the emerging politics of new states across the continent. The analytical frameworks these scholars brought with them for the purpose of interpreting what they saw were largely borrowed from mainstream models derived from the study of American politics that were widely popular at the time. However, soon after the early independence era (19…
Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis? Assessing Governance in Nigeria
Measuring the Impact of Land Reform Policy in Nigeria
Theimperative to regulate and redistribute land has become almost universal to governments in the developing world. In Africa, this kind of policy has been couched in impressive language that justifies increasing regulatory control as the only viable way to revolutionise the productive use of land for national development. Land reforms often signify one element of a larger trend involving the expansion of the state at the expense of other forms o…
Public Policy and Administration in Africa
Being, Negation and Logic
Clarence Irving Lewis 1883-1964
Form and Matter, II
Form and Matter, I
The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism
Professor Linsky on Aristotle
Chance and Choice by Cardpack and Chessboard
Professor Carnap's Philosophy of Probability
Probability and Induction
The Theory of Probability
The Social Scientist as Philosopher and King
The Moral Ideals of Our Civilization
Professor Dubs on the Principle of Indifference
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Induction and the External World
Mr. E. J. Nelson, in “The Inductive Argument for an External World,” treats of fundamental topics with erudition and urbanity, but his essay remains inconclusive, I believe, with respect to its purpose of discrediting the argument. He agrees with Mr. Savery, Mr. Pratt, and me, as against the positivists, that the question of the existence of an external world is meaningful (249) and indeed of paramount importance for both metaphysics and logic. B…
The Meaning of 'Good
Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
On the elements of being
First philosophy, according to the traditional schedule, is ontology, examining the traits necessary to whatever is, in this or any other possible world. Its cardinal problem is that of substance and attribute, or at any rate something cognate with this in that family of ideas which contains also subsistence and inherence, subject and predicate, particular and universal, singular and general, individual and class, and matter and form. It is the q…
Reconsidering State and Society in Africa
Land is one the most fundamental components of agricultural, urban, and industrial development. In sub-Saharan Africa, like much of the rest of the Third world, ambitious land reform policies have become commonplace over the past three decades as one government after another has sought to free up land resources to meet national priorities. Whatever form it has taken, land reform often signifies only a single element in a larger trend involving th…
A Community Model of African Politics
The first years following independence in Africa were an exciting time for scholars who rushed off to observe the emerging politics of new states across the continent. The analytical frameworks these scholars brought with them for the purpose of interpreting what they saw were largely borrowed from mainstream models derived from the study of American politics that were widely popular at the time. However, soon after the early independence era (19…
Probability and Induction
Measuring the Impact of Land Reform Policy in Nigeria
Theimperative to regulate and redistribute land has become almost universal to governments in the developing world. In Africa, this kind of policy has been couched in impressive language that justifies increasing regulatory control as the only viable way to revolutionise the productive use of land for national development. Land reforms often signify one element of a larger trend involving the expansion of the state at the expense of other forms o…
Form and Matter, II
The Theory of Probability
The Development of John Stuart Mill's System of Logic.
The Knowledge of Reality
1. Classification of philosophers 2. Materialism 3. The scientific theory of matter 4. The matter of art 5. Business 6. Training and sexual life 7. Ritual 8. National life 9. Theory of matter 10. Idealism 11. Pantheism 12. Spiritualism 13. Mysticism 14. Final synthesis 15. Polish messianism 16. Palingenesis and Christianity 17. Regenerated mankind 18. The immediate outlook Index
Ethics as Pure Postulate
Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
The Meaning of 'Good
Induction and the External World
Mr. E. J. Nelson, in “The Inductive Argument for an External World,” treats of fundamental topics with erudition and urbanity, but his essay remains inconclusive, I believe, with respect to its purpose of discrediting the argument. He agrees with Mr. Savery, Mr. Pratt, and me, as against the positivists, that the question of the existence of an external world is meaningful (249) and indeed of paramount importance for both metaphysics and logic. B…
Professor Dubs on the Principle of Indifference
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
The Moral Ideals of Our Civilization
The Social Scientist as Philosopher and King
Probability and Induction
The Theory of Probability
Chance and Choice by Cardpack and Chessboard
Professor Carnap's Philosophy of Probability
Professor Linsky on Aristotle
The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism
Form and Matter, II
Form and Matter, I
Being, Negation and Logic
Clarence Irving Lewis 1883-1964
Public Policy and Administration in Africa
Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis? Assessing Governance in Nigeria
Measuring the Impact of Land Reform Policy in Nigeria
Theimperative to regulate and redistribute land has become almost universal to governments in the developing world. In Africa, this kind of policy has been couched in impressive language that justifies increasing regulatory control as the only viable way to revolutionise the productive use of land for national development. Land reforms often signify one element of a larger trend involving the expansion of the state at the expense of other forms o…
A Community Model of African Politics
The first years following independence in Africa were an exciting time for scholars who rushed off to observe the emerging politics of new states across the continent. The analytical frameworks these scholars brought with them for the purpose of interpreting what they saw were largely borrowed from mainstream models derived from the study of American politics that were widely popular at the time. However, soon after the early independence era (19…
Reconsidering State and Society in Africa
Land is one the most fundamental components of agricultural, urban, and industrial development. In sub-Saharan Africa, like much of the rest of the Third world, ambitious land reform policies have become commonplace over the past three decades as one government after another has sought to free up land resources to meet national priorities. Whatever form it has taken, land reform often signifies only a single element in a larger trend involving th…
How Reality is Reasonable
This chapter begins with a systematic presentation of the doctrine of actualism. According to actualism, all that exists is actual, determinate, and of one way of being. There are no possible objects, nor is there any indeterminacy in the world. In addition, there are no ways of being. It is proposed that actual entities stand in three fundamental relations: mereological, spatiotemporal, and resemblance relations. These relations govern the funda…
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