Robertson, Cole Roberts, Seán G.
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Cognitive Science
Previous research on linguistic relativity and economic decisions hypothesized that speakers of languages with obligatory tense marking of future time reference (FTR) should value future rewards less than speakers of languages which permit present tense FTR. This was hypothesized on the basis of obligatory linguistic marking (e.g., will ) causing s...
Yirmibes, Mert
Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s metaphysics offers an excitingly rich interpretation within the context of contemporary modal metaphysics. Brandom reads Hegel’s determinate negation in the way that the concepts of material incompatibility and material consequence relations operate. Brandom recognizes incompatibility as a modal concept and places it as...
Alt, Guido
This dissertation is a study of John Buridan's (c.1300-c.1361) conception of modalities. Modal concepts - concepts of necessity, possibility, impossibility, and contingency - describe the ways in which things could and could not be otherwise. These concepts became notoriously central for philosophical discourse in the late Middle Ages. In recent ye...
Conde, Violeta
As Williamson puts it, ‘necessitism’ is the metaphysical view that claims that “necessarily everything is necessarily something”. As that claim involves modal unrestricted quantification, the necessitist must accept it as a part of an intelligible discourse. Here, I present one of the main objections that have been presented against the intelligibi...
Ofilada Mina, Macario
This essay is a programmatic study with the aim of proposing a new model for the comprehension and devel-opment of Spirituality. Using the key no-tion of ‘Religatio’, from an Augustinian inspiration, Spirituality is presented as a project in history, parting from the Mys-tery, which is Origin as well as Originary (or the same Origin at the end and ...
Martínez Ruiz, Carlos
A critical translation of two quodlibetal questions by Henry of Ghent on the causal origin of impossibility, preceded by a preliminary study that analyses both questions within the general framework of his relational ontology. In the first one (VI.3), Henry concludes that the impossibility of something comes from the thing itself (ex parte rei); wh...
Kronning, Hans
To pay homage to the memory of Michael Herslund we will examine the hypothesis that the French modal verb devoir + Infinitive can be seen as an evidential future periphrasis from a typological perspective in uses such as La pluie doit s’abattre sur une bonne partie du pays (‘The rain will pour down on a good part of the country’). More specifically...
Roman, Andreea-Diana
Due to an increase in newer forms of literature’s popularity among the general consumers, research in favor of utilizing media formats such as audiobooks and graphic novels for educational purposes has grown. Literature formats other than the classic printed text have become more accessible in book stores and school libraries during the last decade...
Wald, Ron Gaudry, Stephane da Costa, Bruno R. Adhikari, Neill K. J. Bellomo, Rinaldo Du, Bin Gallagher, Martin P. Hoste, Eric Lamontagne, Francois Joannidis, Michael
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Background There is controversy regarding the optimal renal-replacement therapy (RRT) modality for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of the STandard versus Accelerated Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury (STARRT-AKI) trial to compare outcomes among patients who initiated R...
Masterman, Christopher James
Acknowledgements: I’d like to especially thank Peter Fritz and Francesco Berto for many helpful discussions about many versions of this paper. Also thanks to Christopher Menzel, Nathan Wildman, Greg Restall, Petronella Randell, Benjamin Marschall, Stuart Masterman, and audiences at both Issues on the (Im)Possible IX in Tilburg and Arché’s Metaphysi...
