Familiar Objects and their Shadows /

"Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say,...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elder, Crawford (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Temas:
Reality.
Phenomenalism.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Metaphysics.
Ontology.
First philosophy.
Réalité.
Phénoménalisme.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Métaphysique.
Ontologie.
epistemology.
metaphysics.
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Two false friends of an ontology of familiar objects
  • Conventionalism as ontological relativism
  • Realism about material objects: persistence, persistence conditions, and natural kinds
  • Ontological preference for the temporally small
  • Ontological preference for microphysical causes
  • Ontological preference for the spatially small
  • A third false friend of familiar objects: universal mereological composition
  • Concluding Hegelian postscript
  • Appendix: 'mutually interfering' dimensions of difference.

Ejemplares similares