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    The faces of existence: an essay in nonreductive metaphysics.John F. Post - 1987 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    John F. Post argues that physicalistic materialism is compatible with a number of views often deemed incompatible with it, such as the objectivity of values, the irreducibility of subjective experience, the power of the metaphor, the normativity of meaning, and even theism.
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    Infinite regresses of justification and of explanation.John F. Post - 1980 - Philosophical Studies 38 (1):31 - 52.
  3. The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics.John F. Post - 1990 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 28 (2):119-120.
     
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    Metaphysics: a contemporary introduction.John F. Post - 1991 - New York: Paragon House.
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    Comment on Teller.John F. Post - 1983 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1):163-167.
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    The possible liar.John F. Post - 1970 - Noûs 4 (4):405-409.
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    A Realistic Theory of Science.John F. Post - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3):517-520.
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    (1 other version)Is supervenience asymmetric?John F. Post - 1999 - Manuscrito 22 (2):305-344.
    After some preliminary clarifications, arguments for the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination, such as they are, are shown to be unsound. An argument against the supposed asymmetry is then constructed and defended against objections. This is followed by explanations of why the intuition of asymmetry is nonetheless so entrenched, and of how the asymmetric ontological priority of the physical over the non-physical can be understood without the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination.
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  9. Paradox in Critical Rationalism and Related Theories.John F. Post - 1971 - Philosophical Forum 3 (1):27.
     
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    Sic Transitivity.John Post & Derek Turner - 2000 - Journal of Philosophical Research 25:67-82.
    In order to defend the regress argument for foundationalism against Post’s objection that relevant forms of inferential justification are not transitive, Lydia McGrew and Timothy McGrew define a relation E of positive evidence, which, they contend, has the following features: It is a necessary condition for any inferential justification; it is transitive and irreflexive; and it enables both a strengthened regress argument proof against Post’s objection and an argument that nothing can ever appear in its own justificational ancestry. In reply, (...)
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  11. How to refute principles of sufficient reason.John F. Post - 1999
    Outlines a conceptual argument against the Principle of Sufficient reason. The argument is presented in detail in earlier work, and is based on deductive inferences from PSR's own concept of explanation. The argument shows that not everything can have an explanation of the sort claimed by PSR. So far from being a presupposition of reason itself, as some think, PSR can be refuted by reason, arguing only from PSR's own concept of explanation. Hence PSR cannot be used to argue that (...)
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  12. Naturalism.John F. Post - 1995 - In Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 517--518.
     
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    On the determinacy of valuation.John F. Post - 1984 - Philosophical Studies 45 (May):315-33.
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    Shades of the liar.John F. Post - 1973 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (3):370 - 386.
  15. (1 other version)Naturalism, reduction and normativity: Pressing from below.John F. Post - 2006 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1):1–27.
    David Papineau’s model of scientific reduction, contrary to his intent, appears to enable a naturalist realist account of the primitive normativity involved in a biological adaptation’s being “for” this or that (say the eye’s being for seeing). By disabling the crucial anti-naturalist arguments against any such reduction, his model would support a cognitivist semantics for normative claims like “The heart is for pumping blood, and defective if it doesn’t.” No moral claim would follow, certainly. Nonetheless, by thus “pressing from below” (...)
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  16. "Global" determination: Too permissive?John F. Post - 1995 - In Elias E. Savellos & Ümit D. Yalçin (eds.), Supervenience: New Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Shades of possibility.John F. Post - 1974 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 3 (1/2):155 - 158.
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    Foundationalism, Transitivity and Confirmation.John Post & Derek Turner - 2000 - Journal of Philosophical Research 25:47-66.
    John Post has argued that the traditional regress argument against nonfoundational justificatory structures does not go through because it depends on the false assumption that “justifies” is in general transitive. But, says Post, many significant justificatory relations are not transitive. The authors counter that there is an evidential relation essential to all inferential justification, regardless of specific inference form or degree of carried-over justificatory force, which is in general transitive. They respond to attempted counterexamples to transitivity brought by Watkins and (...)
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    Perspectives on Buchler.John F. Post - 1995 - Metaphilosophy 26 (3):279-299.
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    Referential presupposition.John F. Post - 1972 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50 (2):160-167.
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    An Analysis of Presupposing.John Frederic Post - 1968 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 6 (3):167-171.
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    A defense of Collingwood's theory of presuppositions.John Frederic Post - 1965 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 8 (1-4):332 – 354.
    Collingwood's theory of presuppositions has never been taken very seriously. But critics have completely overlooked its significance as a theory or model of inquiry intimately tied to certain aspects of discourse in a context of investigation. Viewed this way, Collingwood's theory is on very strong ground, especially when it is reconstructed with the aid of a formal language. The reconstruction shows what is essential to the theory and what is not, allowing us to disregard those of Collingwood's extravagant claims which (...)
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    Breakwater: The new wave, supervenience and individualism.John F. Post - unknown
    New-wave psychoneural reduction, a la Bickle and Churchland, conflicts with the way certain adaptation properties are individuated according to evolutionary biology. Such properties cannot be reduced to physical properties of the token items that have the adaptation properties. The New Wave may entail a form of individualism inconsistent with evolutionary biology. All of this causes serious trouble as well for Jaegwon Kim's thesis of the Causal Individuation of Kinds, his Weak Supervenience thesis, Alexander's Dictum, his synchronicity thesis that all psychological (...)
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    Can Theories Be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine ThesisSandra G. Harding.John Post - 1978 - Isis 69 (1):148-149.
  25. Comments welcome!John Post - manuscript
    The terminal philosopher thinks there must always be beliefs or other posits that are terminal: they can neither be justified nor criticized by inference from anything further. In any context whatever, reason giving must at some point leave off - not for practical reasons, such as lack of time, energy or resources, but in principle. No further argumentative recourse is possible at this level of fundamentality. The terminal matters must therefore be justified or criticized non-inferentially - that is to say, (...)
     
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    Dance, Dialogue, and Despair: Existentialist Philosophy and Education for Peace in Israel, by Haim Gordon.John F. Post - 1989 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 20 (1):98-99.
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    Does knowing make a difference to what is known?John F. Post - 1965 - Philosophical Quarterly 15 (60):220-228.
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    From is to ought: Another way.John F. Post - 2000
    Argues for an objective protomoral normativity in terms of what an adaptation is for, without falling victim to Hume's Law, open-question arguments, queerness arguments, and internalism/externalism debates. Also provides a general strategy for naturalizing objective moral normativity which is likewise proof against the usual-suspect objections.
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  29. "Harward", J., The Platonic Epistles, With Introduction and Notes.John W. Post - 1932 - Classical Weekly 26:100-101.
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  30. Minimal Epistemology: BeyondTerminal Philosophy to Truth (latest working title).John Post - unknown
    . In whatever form, terminal philosophy holds that some matters are so fundamental that they are presupposed in any practice of reason-giving; accordingly, if reason-giving were applied to such matters in order to justify them, or even to criticize, then the very attempt to do so would necessarily assume what is at issue, a fatal circularity . No further argumentative recourse is possible at this level of fundamentality ; rational reason-giving must terminate.
     
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    Method, Madness, and Normativity.John F. Post - 2003 - Philo 6 (2):235-248.
    The method in question is conceptual analysis. The madness comes of its privileging received usage over theories that would revise our concepts so as to conform to the phenomena, not the other way around. The alternatives to capture-the-concept include revisionary theory-construction as practiced not only in the sciences but in some philosophies. I present a revisionary theory of an important kind of normativity -- the normativity involved in a biological adaptation's being for this or that -- which theory, I argue, (...)
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    On the determinacy of truth and translation.John F. Post - 1983 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1):117-135.
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    Objective Value, Realism, and the End of Metaphysics.John F. Post - 1990 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4 (2):146 - 160.
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    Omniscience, Weak PSR, and Method.John F. Post - 2003 - Philo 6 (1):33-48.
    Adhering to the traditional concept of omniscience lands Gale in the incoherence Grim’s Cantorian arguments reveal in talk of “all propositions.” By constructing variants and extensions of Grim’s arguments, I explain why various ways out of the incoherence are unacceptable, why theists would do better to adopt a certain revisionary concept of omniscience, and why the Cantorian troubles are so deep as to be troubles as well for Gale’s Weak PSR. I conclude with some brief reflections on method, suggesting that (...)
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    Presupposition, bivalence, and the possible liar.John F. Post - 1979 - Philosophia 8 (4):645-650.
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    Propositions, possible languages and the liar's revenge.John F. Post - 1974 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 25 (3):223-234.
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    Quine with God.John F. Post - 1974 - Journal of Philosophy 71 (19):736-748.
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    Reply to Gale and Pruss.John F. Post - 2004 - Philo 7 (1):114-121.
    Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss raise a number of excellent questions in their separate responses to my comments on Gale’s book, On the Nature and Existence of God. They focus on aspects of my discussion that need at least to be clarified, if not retracted, in ways I explain in this reply.
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    Sense and Supervenience.John F. Post - 2001 - Philo 4 (2):123-137.
    Alleged counter-examples based on conceptual thought experiments, including those involving sense or content, have no force against physicalist supervenience theses properly construed. This is largely because of their epistemological status and their modal status. Still, there are empirical examples that do contradict Kim-style theses, due to the latter’s individualism. By contrast, non-individualist supervenience, such as “global” supervenience, remains unscathed, a possibility overlooked by Lynne Baker, as is dear from a physicalist account of sense in the case of non-human biological adaptations (...)
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  40. (1 other version)Stuart G. Shanker, ed., Gödel's Theorem in Focus Reviewed by.John F. Post - 1989 - Philosophy in Review 9 (7):287-290.
     
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  41. Shades of Possibility. Rejoinder to R. L. Martin.John F. Post - 1974 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 3 (1/2):155.
     
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    Special Reasons and Specific Answers.John F. Post - 1965 - Analysis 25 (Suppl-3):86 - 93.
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    The Foundationalism in Irrealism, and the Immorality.John F. Post - 1996 - Journal of Philosophical Research 21:1-14.
    The foundationalism in irrealism is structural foundationalism, according to which reason giving must terminate with some affair beyond the reach of noncircular inferential justification or critique. Even relativist irrealists are structural foundationalists. But structural foundationalism is only as good as the regress argument for it, which presupposes that the relevant forms of inferential justification are all transitive. Since they are not, structural foundationalism fails. So too does the “God’s-eye-view” or look-see argument against realism, to the effect that when it comes (...)
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  44. The Logic of Presupposition.John Frederic Post - 1968 - Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
     
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  45. Using language to get outside language.John Post - manuscript
    They say it can't be done . You can't use language to get outside language . The very idea . Thus Putnam : "our language cannot be divided up into two parts, a part that describes the world `as it is anyway,' and a part that describes our conceptual contribution," in order..
     
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  46. Why does anything at all exist?John Post - manuscript
    To ask the question "Why does anything at all exist?" is equivalent to asking "What is the explanation of why anything at all exists." Thus the question presupposes that there is an explanation, known or unknown or unknowable, of why anything at all exists.
     
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    (1 other version)Review of John Leslie Mackie: Truth, Probability and Paradox: Studies in Philosophical Logic[REVIEW]John F. Post - 1975 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (1):73-81.
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    On the Nature and Existence of God. [REVIEW]John F. Post - 1993 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (4):950-954.
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    Book Review:Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays Jaegwon Kim. [REVIEW]John F. Post - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (2):338-.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]E. D. Klemke, John F. Post & Aryeh Leo Motzkin - 1982 - Philosophia 12 (1-2):127-146.
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