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There is no haecceitic Euthyphro problem
Jason Bowers and Meg Wallace have recently argued that those who hold that every individual instantiates a ‘haecceity’ are caught up in a Euthyphro-style dilemma when confronted with familiar cases of fission and fusion. Key to Bowers and Wallace’s dilemma are certain assumptions about the nature of metaphysical explanation and the explanatory commitments of belief in haecceities. However, I argue that the dilemma only arises due to a failure to distinguish between providing a metaphysical explanation of why a fact holds vs. a metaphysical explanation of what it is for a fact to hold. In the process, I also shed light on the explanatory commitments of belief in haecceities
AGM 25 years: twenty-five years of research in belief change
The 1985 paper by Carlos Alchourrón (1931–1996), Peter Gärdenfors,
and David Makinson (AGM), “On the Logic of Theory Change: Partial Meet
Contraction and Revision Functions” was the starting-point of a large and
rapidly growing literature that employs formal models in the investigation
of changes in belief states and databases. In this review, the first twenty five years of this development are summarized. The topics covered include
equivalent characterizations of AGM operations, extended representations of
the belief states, change operators not included in the original framework,
iterated change, applications of the model, its connections with other formal
frameworks, computatibility of AGM operations, and criticism of the model.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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