Brute facts
Elly Vintiadis (Editor), Constantinos Mekios (Editor)
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
Print Book, English, 2018
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018
viii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
9780198758600, 019875860X
1030598277
Must there be brute facts? / John Heil
How to make the case for brute facts / Elanor Taylor
Bruteness and supervenience : mind vs. morality / Joseph Levine
Brute necessity and the mind-body problem / James Van Cleve
Are modal facts brute facts? / Dana Goswick
Truthmaking and the mysteries of emergence / Kevin Morris
Are there brute facts about consciousness? / Torin Alter
The provenance of consciousness / Gerald Vision
Brute facts about emergence / John Symons
There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts / Elly Vintiadis
Emergence : inexplicable but explanatory / Peter Wyss
Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts / Mark H. Bickhard
Emergence, downward causation, and no brute facts in biological systems / Argyris Arnellos, Charbel El-Hani