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    The Two Sides of Being: A Reassessment of Psycho-physical Dualism.Uwe Meixner - 2004 - Mentis.
    This book is intended as a comprehensive defense of psycho-physical dualism. It gives answers to the question of what dualism may consist in, and inquires into the broadly cultural motivation behind accepting dualism or its opponent physicalism. Arguments for dualism, among them strengthened versions of the famous classical arguments, are presented and defended against objections. Moreover, the various general objections to dualism are criticized in detail, for example, the allegation that dualism is of an anti-scientific nature. The book issues into (...)
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  2. The Two Sides of Being: A Reassessment of Psycho-Physical Dualism.Uwe Meixner - 2005 - Erkenntnis 62 (2):290-294.
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  3. Classical intentionality.Uwe Meixner - 2006 - Erkenntnis 65 (1):25-45.
    In the first part, the paper describes in detail the classical conception of intentionality which was expounded in its most sophisticated form by Edmund Husserl. This conception is today largely eclipsed in the philosophy of mind by the functionalist and by the representationalist account of intentionality, the former adopted by Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers, the latter by John Searle and Fred Dretske. The very considerable differences between the classical and the modern conceptions are pointed out, and it is argued (...)
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  4. New perspectives for a dualistic conception of mental causation.Uwe Meixner - 2008 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (1):17-38.
    The paper provides new perspectives for a dualistic conception of mental causation by putting causation that originates in a nonphysical self into an evolutionary perspective. Nonphysical causation of this type - free agency -, together with nonphysical consciousness, is regarded as being not only compatible with physics, but also as having a natural place in nature. It is described how free agency can work, on the basis of the brain, and how it can be compatible with the result of the (...)
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    Defending Husserl: A Plea in the Case of Wittgenstein & Company Versus Phenomenology.Uwe Meixner - 2014 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as worked out by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself. This book examines this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Hacker, Dennett, and others. In defending Husserl against his critics, it offers a comprehensive fresh view of phenomenology as a philosophy of mind.
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  6. K. C. F. Krause: The Combinatorian as Logician.Uwe Meixner - 2022 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (2).
    In a time which it is not amiss to term “the Dark Ages of logic”, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause stayed not only true to logic but actually did something for its advancement. Besides making systematic use of Venn-diagrams long before Venn, Krause — once more taking his inspiration from Leibniz — propounded what appears to be the first completely symbolic systematic representation of logical forms, strongly suggestive of the powerful symbolic languages that have become the mainstay of logic since the (...)
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    Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach.Friedrich Beck, Carl Johnson, Franz von Kutschera, E. Jonathan Lowe, Uwe Meixner, David S. Oderberg, Ian J. Thompson & Henry Wellman - 2008 - Lexington Books.
    Until quite recently, mind-body dualism has been regarded with deep suspicion by both philosophers and scientists. This has largely been due to the widespread identification of dualism in general with one particular version of it: the interactionist substance dualism of Réné Descartes. This traditional form of dualism has, ever since its first formulation in the seventeenth century, attracted numerous philosophical objections and is now almost universally rejected in scientific circles as empirically inadequate. During the last few years, however, renewed attention (...)
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  8. Husserl transzendentaler Idealismus als Supervenienzthese. Ein interner Realismus.Uwe Meixner - 2010 - In Manfred Frank & Niels Weidtmann (eds.), Husserl und die Philosophie des Geistes. Suhrkamp.
  9. Axiomatic Formal Ontology.Uwe Meixner - 1997 - Studia Logica 64 (1):137-140.
     
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    On negative and disjunctive properties.Uwe Meixner - 1992 - In Kevin Mulligan (ed.), Language, Truth and Ontology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 28--36.
  11. Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which does.Uwe Meixner - 2009 - In Robert C. Koons & George Bealer (eds.), The Waning of Materialism: New Essays. Oxford University Press.
    This chapter offers a version of Cartesian dualism that draws on the resources of a Husserlian account of intentionality. For example, it argues that 'I can locate myself at the point in space from which I am looking at the world (my 'center of perspective')'. It relies on empirical phenomenology to show that this location that does not correspond to my body or any part of it. Phantom sensations provide confirming evidence. Next, the chapter uses the example of blurred (versus (...)
     
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    Axiomatic Formal Ontology.Uwe Meixner - 1997 - Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    Axiomatic Formal Ontology is a fairly comprehensive systematic treatise on general metaphysics. The axiomatic method is applied throughout the book. Its main theme is the construction of a general non-set-theoretical theory of intensional entities. Other important matters discussed are the metaphysics of modality, the nature of actual existence, mereology and the taxonomy of entities.
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  13. Theorie der Kausalität Ein Leitfaden Zum Kausalbegriff in Zwei Teilen.Uwe Meixner - 2001
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  14. The Emergence of Rational Souls.Uwe Meixner - 2010 - In A. Corradini & T. O’Connor (eds.), Emergence in Science and Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 6--163.
     
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    The Theory of Ontic Modalities.Uwe Meixner - 2006 - Ontos Verlag.
    This book presents a comprehensive, non-model-theoretic theory of ontic necessity and possibility within a formal (and formalised) ontology consisting of states of affairs, properties, and individuals.
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    Causation in a new old key.Uwe Meixner - 2004 - Studia Logica 76 (3):343 - 383.
    I argue (1) that it is not philosophically significant whether causation is linguistically represented by a predicate or by a sentence connective; (2) that there is no philosophically significant distinction between event- and states-of-affairs-causation; (3) that there is indeed a philosophically significant distinction between agent- and event-causation, and that event-causation must be regarded as an analog of agent-causation. Developing this point, I argue that event-causation's being in the image of agent-causation requires, mainly, (a) that the cause is temporally prior to (...)
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  17. A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - Perhaps God.Uwe Meixner - 2012 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2):169--178.
    The paper presents a new version of the "Cosmological Argument" – considered to be an ontological argument, since it exclusively uses ontological concepts and principles. It employs famous results of modern physics, and distinguishes between event-causation and agent-causation. Due to these features, the argument manages to avoid the objection of infinite regress. It remains true, however, that the conclusion of the argument is too unspecific to be unambiguously considered an argument for the existence of God.
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  18. From Plato to Frege: Paradigms of Predication in the History of Ideas. [REVIEW]Uwe Meixner - 2009 - Metaphysica 10 (2):199-214.
    One of the perennial questions of philosophy concerns the simple statements which say that an object is so and so or that such and such objects are so and so related: simple predicative statements. Do such statements have an ontological basis, and if so, what is that basis? The answer to this question determines—or in any case, is expressive of—a specific fundamental outlook on the world. In the course of the history of Western philosophy, various philosophers have given various answers (...)
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    Modelling Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of a Model.Uwe Meixner - 2009 - Ontos.
    This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model.
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  20. Three indications for the existence of God in causal metaphysics.Uwe Meixner - 2009 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (1):33 - 46.
    With the emergence of modern physics a conflict became apparent between the Principle of Sufficient Cause and the Principle of Physical Causal Closure. Though these principles are not logically incompatible, they could no longer be considered to be both true; one of them had to be false. The present paper makes use of this seldom noticed conflict to argue on the basis of considerations of comparative rationality for the truth of causal statements that have at least some degree of philosophico-theological (...)
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  21. Critical Comments on Nicholas Rescher’s »Why Is There Anything at All? Leibnizian Ruminations on Ultimate Questions«.Uwe Meixner - 2016 - Philosophisches Jahrbuch 123 (2):531-542.
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  22. The Naturalness of Dualism.Uwe Meixner - 2009 - In B. P. Göcke (ed.), The Case for Dualism. Notre Dame Up.
     
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    A Paradox for the Existence Predicate.Uwe Meixner - 2022 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 51 (2):267-280.
    In this paper, a paradox is shown to arise in the context of classical logic from prima facie highly plausible assumptions for the existence predicate as applied to definite descriptions. There are several possibilities to evade the paradox; all involve modifications in the principles of first-order logic with identity, existence, and definite descriptions; some stay within classical logic, others leave it. The merits of the various "ways out" are compared. The most attractive "way out," it is argued, stays within classical (...)
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  24. First Causes: Divine and Human.Uwe Meixner - 2013 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (1):125--140.
    The paper analyzes the concept of a first cause, both for event causation and for agent causation. It turns out that one is rather ready to believe in the existence of first causes that are events, but not in the existence of first causes that are agents. The paper, however, develops and defends a complex argument to the conclusion that there is a first agent-cause. one version of that argument proves -- not necessarily the existence of God -- but still (...)
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    Husserl’s Classical Conception of Intentionality – and Its Enemies.Uwe Meixner - 2016 - In Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock (ed.), Husserl and Analytic Philosophy. De Gruyter. pp. 55-86.
  26. Table of Contents.Uwe Meixner - 1992 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 7 (2):1-2.
    In fact, Godel gave an important model of pure predication, where he showed that restricted comprehension without parameters is valid, but where restricted comprehension with parameters is not (although this invalidity was not established until Cohen). This is the model based on ordinal definability in set theory.
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  27. Negative Theology, Coincidentia Oppositorum, and Boolean Algebra.Uwe Meixner - 1998 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1:75-89.
    In Plato's Parmenides we find on the one hand that the One is denied every property , and on the other hand that the One is attributed every property . In the course of the history of Platonism , these assertions - probably meant by Plato as ontological statements of an entirely formal nature - were repeatedly made the starting points of metaphysical speculations. In the Mystical Theology of the Pseudo-Dionysius they became principles of Christian mysticism and negative theology. I (...)
     
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    An alternative semantics for modal predicate-logic.Uwe Meixner - 1992 - Erkenntnis 37 (3):377 - 400.
    The semantical framework is fundamentally intensional: neither possible worlds nor sets as basic entities, but rather, besides individuals, propositions, properties and relations (in intension). Logical truth is defined in terms of logical form (without mentioning this notion) without employing sets of models and the concept of truth in a model. Truth itself is explicitly defined (without recursion); the truth-conditions for the logical constants of the object-language become theorems derivable from the axioms for "to intend"--the basic semantical relation.
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    Events and their reality.Uwe Meixner - 1994 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 2 (5):23-33.
    This paper presents a set-theoretical conceptual framework for theorizing about (possible) events , and states some analytical and synthetical principles which describe the way in which the concept of reality (or actuality ) applies to them. The conceptual framework has few primitives, but is nevertheless of great definitional power; the demonstration of this will fill the first part of the paper.
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    Laws of Nature—A Skeptical View.Uwe Meixner - 2005 - In Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler & Max Urchs (eds.), Nature's Principles. Springer. pp. 229--238.
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    Negative Theology, Coincidentia Oppositorum, and Boolean Algebra.Uwe Meixner - 1998 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1 (1):75-89.
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  32. Augustinus über Zeitmessung, Gleichzeitigkeit und die Widerlegung der Astrologie. Bemerkungen zur Philosophie der Zeit in Augustinus' Confessiones.Uwe Meixner - 2001 - Philosophia Naturalis 38 (2):299-318.
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    Causal Predicates, Causal Principles, and the Core of Causation.Uwe Meixner - 2021 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77 (4):1153-1174.
    How might one tackle the subject of causation with the least amount of preformed conceptions – and arrive by a series of well-motivated conceptual decisions at a concept of causation that captures the “heart of the matter”? This essay is a sustained attempt to answer this question. On the way, causal predicates of various degrees of importance are defined and causal principles of various degrees of plausibility discussed, all of this in the service of approaching, step by step, “the heart (...)
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  34. Naturale Psyche: Husserl über die Seele als Naturobjekt.Uwe Meixner - 2011 - In Verena Mayer, Christopher Erhard, Marisa Scherini & Uwe Meixner (eds.), Die Aktualität Husserls. Karl Alber.
     
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    Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective.Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner (eds.) - 2014 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Quantum physics, unlike classical physics, suggests a non-physicalistic metaphysics. Whereas physicalism implies a reductive position in the philosophy of mind, quantum physics is compatible with non-reductionism, and actually seems to support it. The essays in this book explore, from various points of view, the possibilities of basing a non-reductive philosophy of mind on quantum physics."--Back cover.
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  36. Axiomatische Ontologie.Uwe Meixner - 1991 - Regensburg: S. Roderer Verlag.
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  37. Aquinas on Forms, Individuation, and Matter.Uwe Meixner - 1996 - Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 43 (1/2):45-64.
     
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  38. Über das zentrale Argument für den erkenntnistheoretischen Idealismus.Uwe Meixner - 2002 - Facta Philosophica 4 (1):89-103.
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  39. Die Metaphysik von Ereignis und Substanz.Uwe Meixner - 2001 - Polylog.
    Uwe Meixners Essay stellt in gedrängter Form die Hauptgedanken seines 1997 publizierten großen systematischen Entwurfes “Ereignis und Substanz” vor, der neben einer Ontologie im engeren Sinn auch eine Bewusstseinstheorie, eine philosophische Gotteslehre und eine Theodizee beinhaltet. Im vorliegenden Beitrag erläutert er seinen Begriff von Substanz, der eng mit seiner Sicht von Kausalität zusammenhängt und vertritt dabei den radikalen Standpunkt, dass Ereigniskausalität auf Agenskausalität, die von transzendenten Substanzen als Realisationssubjekten getragen werde, reduziert werden könne. Dieser monadische Ansatz wird dann zu einem (...)
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  40. Die Neue Monadologie / The New Monadology.Uwe Meixner - 2001 - Metaphysica 2 (1).
     
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  41. Die Zentralität der analytischen Methode für die Philosophie, insbesondere die der Antike.Uwe Meixner - 1999 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2.
    In addition to delineating a creative and non-deterministic notion of conceptual analysis, the paper defends two theses, one conceptual, the other historical: Although philosophical activity can certainly not be conceptually reduced to conceptual analysis, conceptual analysis is nevertheless central to it and encompasses what can be most properly called "philosophical" about it. The history of philosophy, particularly of ancient philosophy, confirms a posteriori the adequacy of thesis.
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  42. Die Zentralität der analytischen Methode für die Philosophie, insbesondere die der Antike.Uwe Meixner - 1999 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2 (1):25-36.
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  43. Eine Explikation Des Begriffs Der Zurechnung.Uwe Meixner - 1994 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2.
    This article provides an explication of the concept "imputation". On the one hand, this explication takes account of the common meaning of the concept and its generally intended range of application. On the other hand, it also provides a definition of the meaning of "y is to be imputed to x", which is precise and fruitful . The adequacy of this definition of "imputation" is justified in detail, in the light of the standards for explications. Since the concept "imputation" is (...)
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  44. Gottfried Seebaß: Wollen. [REVIEW]Uwe Meixner - 1994 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 2.
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  45. Husserls Dualismus.Uwe Meixner - 2007 - E-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie 9.
    The paper expounds the sense in which Husserl was not a psychophysical dualist – but also the sense in which he was a psychophysical dualist after all. On the one hand, it takes into account Husserl’s critical statements regarding “dualism,” on the other hand it closely considers Husserl’s understanding of the intentionality of phenomenal experiences. It is shown that Husserl’s writings contain several argumentations that can be interpreted as arguments for psychophysical dualism . It is argued that Husserl’s dualism – (...)
     
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  46. Husserls Dualismus.Uwe Meixner - 2007 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 10.
    The paper expounds the sense in which Husserl was not a psychophysical dualist – but also the sense in which he was a psychophysical dualist after all. On the one hand, it takes into account Husserl’s critical statements regarding “dualism,” on the other hand it closely considers Husserl’s understanding of the intentionality of phenomenal experiences. It is shown that Husserl’s writings contain several argumentations that can be interpreted as arguments for psychophysical dualism. It is argued that Husserl’s dualism – the (...)
     
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  47. A Brief Ontology of Spatial and Temporal Localization.Uwe Meixner - 2007 - In Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence. Ontos. pp. 91-102.
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  48. Metaphysik Im Postmetaphysischen Zeitalter Akten des 22. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums, 15. Bis 21. August 1999, Kirchberg Am Wechsel.Uwe Meixner - 2001
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  49. Metaphysik im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter.Uwe Meixner & Peter M. Simons (eds.) - 1999
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  50. Metaphysics in the post-metaphysical age: papers of the 22st [sic] International Wittgenstein Symposium, August 15-21, 1999, Kirchberg am Wechsel.Uwe Meixner & Peter M. Simons (eds.) - 1999 - Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.
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