Intrinsicality and Hyperintensionality

Eddon, M.

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00414.x

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“…We need states to be intrinsic. In the current debate about intrinsic properties, however, no real consensus has been reached; see, e.g., Langton and Lewis (1998) and Eddon (2011). Considerations of the relativity of simultaneity may raise further worries in connection with the requirement of having to specify a global Now to make sense of a 'current state of the world'.…”

Section: Determinism and Indeterminismmentioning

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A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism

Müller

Briegel

2018

Dialectica

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The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeterminism: an indeterministic world allows for the existence of free agency. The question of the compatibility of free agency and indeterminism is less discussed than its mirror image, the question of the compatibility of free agency and determinism. It is, however, of great importance for our self‐conception as free agents in our (arguably) indeterministic world. We begin by explicating the notions of indeterminism and free agency and by clarifying the interrelation of free agency and the human‐specific notion of free will. We then situate our claim of the compatibility of free agency and indeterminism precisely in the landscape of the current debate on freedom and determinism, exposing an unhappy asymmetry in that debate. Then we proceed to make our case by describing the mathematically precise, physically motivated model of projective simulation, which employs indeterminism as a central resource for agency modeling. We argue that an indeterministic process of deliberation modeled by the dynamics of projective simulation can exemplify free agency under indeterminism, thereby establishing our compatibility claim: Free agency can develop and thrive in an indeterministic world.

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Section: Determinism and Indeterminismmentioning

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A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism

Müller

Briegel

2018

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“…Cf (Marshall 2012, p. 535). 27 This objection has been discussed by a number of philosophers including Sider (1996) and Eddon (2011). The objection also applies to a number of other accounts of intrinsicality, including Langton and Lewis (1998), Lewis (2001), Weatherson (2001), and Rosen (2010).…”

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An Analysis of Intrinsicality

Marshall

2015

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The leading account of intrinsicality over the last thirty years has arguably been David Lewis's account in terms of perfect naturalness. Lewis's account, however, has three serious problems: i) it cannot allow necessarily coextensive properties to differ in whether they are intrinsic; ii) it falsely classifies non‐qualitative properties like being Obama as non‐intrinsic; and iii) it is incompatible with a number of metaphysical theories that posit irreducibly non‐categorical properties. I argue that, as a result of these problems, Lewis's account should be rejected and replaced with an alternative account, which also analyses intrinsicality in terms of perfect naturalness, but which avoids these problems.

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“… The problem of hyperintensionality for Lewis's duplication-based account (Eddon 2011) also relies on exclusivity and primacy, and the responses Eddon considers (and counters) include fiddling with LEM and minimizing the flaw. The problem of hyperintensionality (for Lewis) is that (a) if one individuates properties in terms of sets of possible individuals, and (b) if one holds that duplicates are worldbound individuals, then one will not be able to distinguish intrinsic from extrinsic necessary properties or intrinsic from extrinsic identity properties.…”

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What’s the Use of an Intrinsic Property?

Figdor¹

2014

Companion to Intrinsic Properties

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Intrinsicality and Hyperintensionality

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism

A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism

An Analysis of Intrinsicality

What’s the Use of an Intrinsic Property?

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