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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Dissertations - ALL
The goal of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But if they are, what makes them true? I establish two potential answers to this question, ultimately favoring one according to which when a loved one dies we lose parts of our practical identities.
Chapter One introduces and sets up this topic it. It then focuses on the extent to …
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland
Dissertations - ALL
The goal of this dissertation is to develop an understanding of grief utterances: expressions of grief that in losing a loved one, the bereaved lost a part of herself. Grief utterances are commonplace, and their accompanying phenomenology suggests they are true. That gives us reason to think they are true. But if they are, what makes them true? I establish two potential answers to this question, ultimately favoring one according to which when a loved one dies we lose parts of our practical identities.
Chapter One introduces and sets up this topic it. It then focuses on the extent to …
Ideology, Truthmaking And Fundamentality, Anthony Robert James Fisher
Ideology, Truthmaking And Fundamentality, Anthony Robert James Fisher
Philosophy - Dissertations
In chapter 1 I outline two conceptions of ideology: ideological pessimism and ideological realism. Ideological pessimism is the view that ideological inquiry has dim prospects insofar as ideology is tied to meaning. Ideological realism is the view that there is a fact of the matter about which ideology is taken as primitive when attempting to describe reality correctly. I respond to an argument on behalf of ideological pessimism, develop ideological realism, and then defend it against an objection that attempts to derive the unpalatable consequence that a main dispute in the metaphysics of properties is verbal.
In chapter 2 I …