Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm
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iwilhelm@nus.edu.sg
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Publication Explanatory priority monism(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-04) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYPublication Grounding and propositional identity(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-05-05) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYAbstract I show that standard grounding conditions contradict standard conditions for the identities of propositions.Publication Centering the Everett Interpretation(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYAbstract I propose an account of probability in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. According to the account, probabilities are objective chances of centered propositions. As I show, the account solves a number of problems concerning the role of probability in the Everett interpretation. It also challenges an implicit assumption, concerning the aim and scope of fundamental physical theories, that is made throughout the philosophy of physics literature.Publication Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation(University of Chicago Press, 2022-06-01) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYPublication Pluralities, counterparts, and groups(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-07) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYPublication Intrinsicality and Entanglement(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-01-17) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYAbstract I explore the relationship between a prominent analysis of intrinsic properties, due to Langton and Lewis, and the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. As I argue, the analysis faces a puzzle. The full analysis classifies certain properties of entangled particles as intrinsic. But when combined with an extremely plausible assumption about duplication, the main part of the analysis classifies those properties as non-intrinsic instead. I conclude that much of Lewis’s metaphysics is in trouble: Lewis based many of his metaphysical views—his thesis of Humean supervenience, for instance, and his account of recombination—on an analysis of intrinsicality which does not sit well with quantum phenomena.Publication Centering the Principal Principle(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-06) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYPublication Celestial chaos: The new logics of theory-testing in orbital dynamics(Elsevier BV, 2019-02) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYPublication The Value of Naturalness(SPRINGER, 2023-01-01) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYIt is often assumed that theorizing in terms of natural properties is more objectively valuable than theorizing in terms of non-natural properties. But this assumption faces an explanatory challenge: explain the greater objective value of theorizing in terms of natural properties. In this paper, I answer that challenge by proposing and exploring three different accounts of the objective value of naturalness. Two appeal to constitutive natures: it is part of the constitutive nature of explanation, or of objective value, that theorizing in terms of natural properties is more objectively valuable. The third appeals to the theoretical role that naturalness plays.Publication The Counteridentical Account of Explanatory Identities(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2021-02) Wilhelm, Isaac; Dr Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm; PHILOSOPHYMany explanations rely on identity facts. In this paper, I propose an account of how identity facts explain: roughly, the fact that A is identical to B explains another fact whenever that other fact depends, counterfactually, on A being identical to B. As I show, this account has many virtues. It avoids several problems facing accounts of explanatory identities, and when precisified using structural equations, it can be used to defend interventionist accounts of causation against an objection.
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