Conceptual Conservatism and Contingent Composition

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (4):327-339 (2013)
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel answer to the Special Composition Question. In some respects it agrees with brutalism about composition; in others with universalism. The main novel feature of this answer is the insight I think it gives into what the debate over the Special Composition Question is about.

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10.1080/0020174x.2013.816249

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Josh Parsons
PhD: Australian National University; Last affiliation: University of Otago

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