Neil Mckinnon

Neil Mckinnon
Monash University (Australia) · School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies

PhD

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Presentists standardly conform to the eternalist’s paradigm of treating all cases of property-exemplification as involving a single relation of instantiation. This, we argue, results in a much less parsimonious and philosophically explanatory picture than is possible if other alternatives are considered. We argue that by committing to primitive pas...
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The presentist view of time is psychologically appealing. I argue that, ironically, contingent facts about the temporal properties of consciousness are very difficult to square with presentism unless some form of mind/body dualism is embraced.
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Peter Unger's ‘problem of the many’ has elicited many responses over the past quarter of a century. Here I present a new problem of the many. This new problem, I claim, is resistant to the solutions currently on offer for Unger's problem.
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  Gareth Evans has argued influentially against vague identities. David Lewis and Theodore Sider have argued against vague parthood. Much of the distaste among philosophers for metaphysical vagueness is sourced in these arguments. I argue that even if the considerations adduced by Evans, Lewis and Sider are conclusive, metaphysical boundary vaguene...
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Supervaluational treatments of vagueness are currently quite popular among those who regard vagueness as a thoroughly semantic phenomenon. Peter Unger’s ‘problem of the many’ may be regarded as arising from the vagueness of our ordinary physical-object terms, so it is not surprising that supervaluational solutions to Unger’s problem have been offer...
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One winter's Saturday Clarence wakes up. He realises he has left his umbrella at work. The o#ce is locked, and he can't get in. Being one of those people who punish themselves for their mistakes, he can't bring himself to buy a replacement. He has an engagement six kilometres down the road and starts wondering whether it will rain. Normally, this w...

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