Determinables and Determinates “How thing are”, graduate course, spring term 2011 Philipp Keller,

Recent advances in the philo- sophy of space-time provide us with a model: if we think of the qualitative characteristics of (actual and possible) things as locations within

The criterion of invariance among intrinsic duplicates gives results which are hardly justifiable when applied to relational properties which involve part-directed relations: having

Only a person, or something very like a person, can resemble a person in respect of personhood and personal traits enough to be his per- sonal counterpart.. But if we assign

Given a distribution of universals over space- time points, not only fusions are completely determined iff their parts are, but the distribution of properties of the form having an

On this account, the materialist’s global supervenience the- sis is this: relative to all possible worlds that have the same total set of properties and relations as our world,

The persistence of the name, and thus its identity, is based on this relation of genidentity and not on its referent or on its syntactical-lexical form: two inscriptions or

Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information..

essential determination : instances, concreta, tokens, exemplars, parts, matter and processes could not be what they are and have different properties, abstracta, types, species,