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Against strong pluralism

Noonan, Harold W.

Authors

HAROLD NOONAN HAROLD.NOONAN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Mind and Cognition



Abstract

Strong pluralists hold that not even permanent material coincidence is enough for identity. Strong pluralism entails the possibility of purely material objects -- even if not coincident -- alike in all general respects, categorial and dispositional, relational and non-relational, past, present and future, at the microphysical level, but differing in some general modal, counterfactual or dispositional repscts at the macrophysical level. It is objectionable because it thus deprives us of the explanatory resources to explain why evident absurdities are absurd. A second objection is to the suggestion that cases involving artefacts can illustrate strong pluralism. This offends against the principle that gien a complex intrinsic microphysical property instantiated in some regiion, the number of material things possessing it in that region cannot depend on the existence and nature of intentional activity taking place outside it.

Citation

Noonan, H. W. (in press). Against strong pluralism. Philosophia, 43(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9640-4

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 4, 2015
Online Publication Date Aug 14, 2015
Deposit Date Aug 15, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Philosophia
Print ISSN 0048-3893
Electronic ISSN 1574-9274
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 43
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9640-4
Keywords Pluralism, Coincidence, Goliath and Lumplde, re modality
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/758948
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9640-4
Additional Information The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9640-4

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