Johanssonian investigations: essays in honour of Ingvar Johansson on his seventieth birthday

In the last decades, Ingvar Johansson has made a formidable contribution to the development of philosophy in general and perhaps especially to the development of metaphysics. This volume consists of original papers written by 50 philosophers from all over the world in honour of Ingvar Johansson to celebrate his 70th birthday. The papers cover traditional issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, applied ethics and applied metaphysics, the nature of human rights, the philosophy of economics and sports. Some of the papers study the philosophy of Ingvar Johansson. All of them studies subjects which he has shown an interest in. The variety of subjects covered, testifies to the extraordinary wide range of issues his thought has had a bearing on.

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Living with Uncertainty - A Plea for Enlightened Skepticism /; An Argument Against Disjunctivism /; Is Experience a Reason for Accepting Basic Statements? /; Egos & Selves - From Husserl to Nagel /; Gewirthian Positive Duties Reconsidered /; Quasi-Realism, Absolutism, and Judgment-Internal Correctness Conditions /; Towards a Formal Representation of Document Acts and the Resulting Legal Entities /; Information and Encoding /; On the Money /; On the Necessity of a Transcendental Phenomenology /; Provocation and the Mitigation of Responsibility /; Causal Attribution and Crossing over Between Probabilities in Clinical Diagnosis /; Intentionalism and Perceptual Knowledge /; Outline of a Naturalized Externalistic Epistemology /; There Are No Ceteris Paribus Laws /; Dissolving McTaggart's Paradox /; Constituent Functions /; Football for All - Even Women! /; Johansson's Conception of Instantiation /; The Elusive Appearance of Time /; Artefact Kinds Need Not Be Kinds of Artefacts /; Complex Reality: Unity, Simplicity, and Complexity in a Substance Ontology /; Does Dual Use of Johansson's Proficiency Creativity Benefit Patients or Physicians? /; Is It Possible to Be both a Marxist and a Market Socialist? /; Standard Subjective Bayesianism Is Either Inconsistent or a Way to Housetrain Relativism /; Determinables and Brute Similarities /; Infinite Regress Arguments /; Three Logico-Ontological Notions and Mereology /; Mere Individuators - Why the Theory of Bare Particulars Is Coherent but Implausible /; Motivation and Motivating Reason /; Direct Realism and Spatiality /; The Protestant Theory of Determinable Universals /; Density, Angle, and Other Dimensional Nonsense: How Not to Standardize Quantity /; Meanings as Abstracta: How to Put Timeless Ideas into (Spatio-) Temporal Consciousness /; Human Action in the Healthcare Domain: A Critical Analysis of HL7's Reference Information Model /; Intentionality and Indexicality: Content Internalism and Husserl's Logical Investigations /; Ingvar Johansson and the Bridging Problem /; Are Colours Visually Complex? /; Resemblance and Qualitativeness of Instances /; A Defense of Aristotelian Pride /; Christopher Jacob Boström's Pre-Fregean Dual Conception of Meaning /; Undetached Parts and Disconnected Wholes /; Armstrongian Particulars with Necessary Properties /; A More Secure Existence. Rethinking the Myth of Individual Origin /; Human Nature and the Paradox of Forgiveness /; Ingvar Johansson: List of Publications / Allwood, Jens --; Almäng, Jan --; Andersson, Gunnar --; Baldwin, Brian T. --; Bauhn, Per --; Björnsson, Gunnar --; Brochhausen, Mathias / Almeida, Mauricio B. / Slaughter, Laura --; Camardi, Giovanni --; Carlshamre, Staffan --; Cavallin, Jens --; Egonsson, Dan --; Giaretta, Pierdaniele / Chiffi, Daniele --; Gustavsson, Kent --; Haglund, Björn --; Hansson, Bengt --; Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias --; Hennig, Boris --; Hjelm, Jonny --; Hochberg, Herbert --; Ingthorsson, Rögnvaldur D. --; Jansen, Ludger --; Lowe, E. Jonathan --; Lynøe, Niels --; Lönnroth, Johan --; Malmgren, Helge --; Massin, Olivier --; Maurin, Anna-Sofia --; Meixner, Uwe --; Rydéhn, Henrik --; Rønnow-Rasmussen, Toni --; Salmijärvi, Susanna --; Simon, Jonathan --; Simons, Peter --; Woodruff Smith, David --; Smith, Barry / Vizenor, Lowell / Ceusters, Werner --; Spear, Andrew D. --; Sundberg, Kristoffer --; Sundström, Pär --; Svennerlind, Christer --; Tolland, Anders --; Täljedal, Inge-Bert --; Varzi, Achille C. --; Wachter, Daniel von --; Welin, Stellan --; Zaibert, Leo --