scholarly journals Almost Identical, Almost Innocent

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
Katherine Hawley
Keyword(s):  
David Lewis ◽  
Partial Identity ◽  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Many

AbstractIn his 1991 book, Parts of Classes, David Lewis discusses the idea that composition is identity, alongside the idea that mereological overlap is a form of partial identity. But this notion of partial identity does nothing to help Lewis achieve his goals in that book. So why does he mention it? I explore and resolve this puzzle, by comparing Parts of Classes with Lewis's invocation of partial identity in his 1993 paper ‘Many But Almost One’, where he uses it to address Unger's problem of the many. I raise some concerns about this way of thinking of partial identity, but conclude that, for Lewis, it is an important defence against accusations of ontological profligacy.

scholarly journals News-Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 993-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Beaudry ◽  
Franck Portier
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycles ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Economic Fluctuations ◽  
Aggregate Fluctuations ◽  
Business Cycle Fluctuations ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Many

There is a widespread belief that changes in expectations may be an important independent driver of economic fluctuations. The news view of business cycles offers a formalization of this perspective. In this paper we discuss mechanisms by which changes in agents' information, due to the arrival of news, can cause business cycle fluctuations driven by expectational change, and we review the empirical evidence aimed at evaluating their relevance. In particular, we highlight how the literature on news and business cycles offers a coherent way of thinking about aggregate fluctuations, while at the same time we emphasize the many challenges that must be addressed before a proper assessment of the role of news in business cycles can be established. (JEL D83, D84, E13, E32, O33)

The Problem of the Many, Many Composition Questions, and Naive Mereology

Noûs ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
The Many

Is the Problem of the Many a Problem in Metaphysics?

Noûs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 746-752
Author(s):  
Dan López de Sa
Keyword(s):  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
The Many

Supervaluations and the Problem of the Many

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (208) ◽  
pp. 320-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil McKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
The Many

scholarly journals VET TEACHERS IN SLOVAKIA AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR COMPETENCES IMPROVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-249
Author(s):  
TÍMEA ŠEBEN ZAŤKOVÁ ◽  
MARIÁN AMBROZY
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
Teacher Competences ◽  
Training Community ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Level

The common problem of the many countries that´s identified by many policy makers, educators, economists and other professionals is the problem of high level of youth unemployment rate. Properly prepared workforce for the European economy are current challenges for the teacher and training community. The need to update vocational education teaching (further VET) - teachers’ qualifications and competences is very urgent in the all countries of EU. This study deals with teacher preparation in Slovakia and concisely describes selected results of questionnaire survey on vocational education teacher competences. The study provides an introduction to the theme of teacher competence improvement through small survey conducted at Slovak university of Agriculture in Nitra and suggests some challenges for solution in VET teachers preparation. There is a need of innovative practical approach to stimulating and develop key competences among students in VET institutions. This need is also connected with the quality of VET teachers and the professional teacher competences development in teachers’ preparation and in their further education.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Brown ◽  
Calvin G. Normore
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ordinary Objects ◽  
Concise Overview ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Many ◽  
Scientific Worldview

In the Introduction, we explain what this book is about and why it is significant. The book concerns the question of whether the many ordinary objects of which Descartes speaks—including tools, automata, animals, plants, the human body, the human being, families, and nation states—have any place in his metaphysical system, or whether they should be eliminated from a properly Cartesian scientific worldview. This study is significant both for challenging the standard reductionist and eliminativist readings of Descartes’ natural philosophy and for offering a different way of thinking about such issues in contemporary debates. The introduction offers the reader a quick tour through the chapters, giving a concise overview of the aims and structure of the entire book.

Material Objects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Sattig
Keyword(s):  
Composite Material ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Mereological Nihilism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Problem Of The Many ◽  
The Many

This Element is a survey of central topics in the metaphysics of material objects. The topics are grouped into four problem spaces. The first concerns how an object's parts are related to the object's existence and to the object's nature, or essence. The second concerns how an object persists through time, how an object is located in spacetime, and how an object changes. The third concerns paradoxes about objects, including paradoxes of coincidence, paradoxes of fission, and the problem of the many. The fourth concerns views with radical consequences regarding the existence of composite material objects, including mereological nihilism, ontological anti-realism, and deflationism.

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