• Death 

      Ismael, Jenann
      Published 2006-06-08
      We don't like to think about death. In fact, we do everything we can to avoid it. Is it something to be feared? Why? Who does death harm? What kind of a loss is involved in the loss of a human life? Does the finitude of ...
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    • Entropy, Interventions and Causation 

      Frisch, Mathias
      Published 2006-07-20
      Possible connections between thermodynamics and the causal asymmetry
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    • Folk Physics, Intervention and the Concept of Cause 

      Hitchcock, Chris
      Published 2006-07-19
      Our interventions in the world are guided by our folk physical theories of how the world works. For example, we know that we can move an object by pushing it with a stick, but not by pushing it with a rope. Nothing could ...
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      Recording, oral
    • Elusive Causation 

      Maslen, Cei
      Published 2006-07-19
      David Lewis claimed that knowledge is elusive. "That is how knowledge is elusive. Examine it, and straightway it vanishes..." He argued that epistemology robs us of our knowledge: "Maybe epistemology is the culprit. Maybe ...
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    • Memory and Temporal Awareness 

      Fernandez, Jordi
      Published 2006-07-23
      Memories have content in that they can be correct or incorrect. In addition, memories have an interesting phenomenological feature: If a subject remembers some event, then that event is presented to her as taking place in ...
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