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    Natural Laws as Dispositions.Florian Fischer - 2018 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the vast topic of laws of nature. Thus, it first outlines the alleged characteristics of the laws of nature, namely truth, objectivity, contingency, necessity, universality, grounding counterfactuals and their role in science. Among these aspects, the peculiar modal status of laws of nature will be identified as the ‘holy grail’ of the debate. The second part of this chapter is concerned with the three main families of theories of laws of nature – neo-humean, (...)
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  2. A causal Bayes net analysis of dispositions.Alexander Gebharter & Florian Fischer - 2021 - Synthese 198 (5):4873-4895.
    In this paper we develop an analysis of dispositions by means of causal Bayes nets. In particular, we analyze dispositions as cause-effect structures that increase the probability of the manifestation when the stimulus is brought about by intervention in certain circumstances. We then highlight several advantages of our analysis and how it can handle problems arising for classical analyses of dispositions such as masks, mimickers, and finks.
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    The Story of Zucky.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 151-152.
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    Ethical violations in the clinical setting: the hidden curriculum learning experience of Pakistani nurses.Sara Rizvi Jafree, Rubeena Zakar, Florian Fischer & Muhammad Zakria Zakar - 2015 - BMC Medical Ethics 16 (1):16.
    The importance of the hidden curriculum is recognised as a practical training ground for the absorption of medical ethics by healthcare professionals. Pakistan’s healthcare sector is hampered by the exclusion of ethics from medical and nursing education curricula and the absence of monitoring of ethical violations in the clinical setting. Nurses have significant knowledge of the hidden curriculum taught during clinical practice, due to long working hours in the clinic and front-line interaction with patients and other practitioners.
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  5. Persistence Reconsidered.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Patrick Blackburn, Per Hasle & Peter Ohrstrom (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Time - Themes from Prior. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. pp. 151-166.
    In this paper, I will argue that we need to consider the ‘change- makers’ if we want to provide a comprehensive theory of persistence. The classical theories of persistence, endurantism and perdurantism in all their flavours, are content with avoiding the looming contradiction in the context of Leibniz’s Law. They do not account for how change is brought about. I argue that this is not sufficient to constitute a theory of persistence and I will introduce produrantism as a new access (...)
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    (1 other version)Frontmatter.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter.
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    On the Asymmetry of Endurantistic and Perdurantistic Coexistence in Special Relativity.Florian Fischer - 2012 - Philosophia Naturalis 49 (1):43-61.
    The paper reviews Balashov’s Asymmetry Thesis concerning co-existing (point-sized) enduring objects, on the one hand, and perduring ones, on the other. In this regard, it becomes crucial to investigate whether, at a given spacetime point p, it is located only the respective temporal part of a perdur- ing whole, or that whole as well. Two alternatives ought to be distinguished and, then, I will argue as follows: If the perduring whole is located where its parts are, the original asymmetry- thesis (...)
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  8. Philosophy of time: A slightly opinionated introduction.Florian Fischer - 2016 - Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):3-28.
    There are several intertwined debates in the area of contemporary philos- ophy of time. One field of inquiry is the nature of time itself. Presentists think that only the present moment exists whereas eternalists believe that all of (space-)time exists on a par. The second main field of inquiry is the question of how objects persist through time. The endurantist claims that objects are three-dimensional wholes, which persist by being wholly1 present, whereas the perdurantist thinks that objects are four- dimensional (...)
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    Carnap’s Logic of Science and Reference to the Present Moment.Florian Fischer - 2016 - Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):61-90.
    The important switch from the so-called old B-theory to the new tenseless theory of time (NTT), which had significant implications for the field of tense and indexicals, occurred after Carnap’s era. Against this new background, Carnap’s original inter-translatability thesis can no longer be upheld. The most natural way out would be to modify Carnap’s position according to the NTT; but this is not compatible with Carnap’s metaphysical neutrality thesis. Even worse, Carnap’s work on measurement theory can be used to develop (...)
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    On Only Dogs: A Conversation by Christiane Brosius with the Authors of Only dogs walk as if they know where they’re going.Ludwig Berger & Florian Fischer - 2019 - Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 28 (1):101-108.
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    Acknowledgements.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 1-2.
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    Author Index.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 161-162.
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    2. Analyses of dispositions.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 31-70.
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    Bibliography.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 153-160.
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    3. Composition.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 71-105.
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    Contents.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter.
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    Case File.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 145-148.
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    5. Dispositional Laws of Nature.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 123-144.
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    Index.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 163-166.
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    Limit Deciding Dispositions. A Metaphysical Symmetry-Breaker for the Limit Decision Problem.Florian Fischer - unknown
    There are basically four options to which state the limiting instant in a change from one state to its opposite belongs – only the first, only the second, both or none. This situation is usually referred to as the limit decision problem since all of these options seem troublesome: The first two alleged solutions are asymmetric and thus need something to ground this asymmetry in ; while the last two options leave the realm of classical logic. I argue that including (...)
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    1. Laws of Nature.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 3-30.
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    Preface.Florian Fischer - 2016 - Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 30 (2):1-2.
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    4. Progressing to Processes.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 106-122.
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    Theories of Dispositions.Florian Fischer - 2018 - In Natural Laws as Dispositions. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 149-150.
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    Die Existenzbegriffe der Philosophie der Zeit. [REVIEW]Florian Fischer - 2020 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (1):150-157.
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