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Quantifier variance and realism : essays in metaontology /

Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time (culminating in the 1982 OUP book The Concept of Identity). Within the last 10 years, his work on realism and quantifier variance has been front-and-center in the minds of many...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirsch, Eli, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A sense of unity
  • Basic objects : a reply to Xu
  • Objectivity without objects
  • The vagueness of identity
  • Quantifier variance and realism
  • Against revisionary ontology
  • Comments on Theodore Sider's four dimensionalism
  • Sosa's existential relativism
  • Physical-object ontology, verbal disputes, and common sense
  • Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance
  • Language, ontology, and structure
  • Ontology and alternative languages.