Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Machamer,P/Darden,L/Craver,C, Roderick Chisholm and Carrie Jenkins

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
16554 Activities have place, rate, duration, entities, properties, modes, direction, polarity, energy and range [Machamer/Darden/Craver]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
15832 Events are states of affairs that occur at certain places and times [Chisholm]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation
17727 We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts [Jenkins]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
17720 There's essential, modal, explanatory, conceptual, metaphysical and constitutive dependence [Jenkins, by PG]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
15828 I propose that events and propositions are two types of states of affairs [Chisholm]
15829 The mark of a state of affairs is that it is capable of being accepted [Chisholm]
15809 A state of affairs pertains to a thing if it implies that it has some property [Chisholm]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
13120 Chisholm divides things into contingent and necessary, and then individuals, states and non-states [Chisholm, by Westerhoff]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism
17728 The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well [Jenkins]