Brute Facts

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Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2018)
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Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to give accounts of other facts or phenomena, and so they play a key role in many philosophers' views about the structure of the world. This volume explores neglected questions about the nature of brute facts and their explanatory role.

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B105.F3.B78 2018

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9780198758600   019875860X
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Chapters

Are there brute facts about consciousness?Torin Alter
Emergence, downward causation, and no brute facts in biological systems.Argyris Arnellos & Charbel El-Hani
Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts.Mark H. Bickhard
Are modal facts brute facts?Dana Goswick
Must there be brute facts?John Heil
Bruteness and supervenience : mind vs. morality.Joseph Levine
Truthmaking and the Mysteries of Emergence.Kevin Morris
Brute facts about emergence.John Symons
How to make the case for brute facts.Elanor Taylor
Brute necessity and the mind-body problem.James Van Cleve
There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts.Elly Vintiadis
The provenance of consciousness.Gerald Vision
Emergence : inexplicable but explanatory.Peter Wyss

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Elly Vintiadis
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