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Oxford studies in metaphysics. Volume 10 /
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 10; Copyright; Preface; Contents; The Sanders Prize in Metaphysics; Dispositions; 1: Teleological Dispositions; 1. Introduction; 2. Conditional Analyses; 2.1 The simple conditional analysis; 2.2 Appealing to the exclusion of external interference; 2.3 Appealing to normal conditions; 2.4 Appealing to proportionality; 2.5 A different direction; 3. A Teleological Account of Dispositions; 3.1 Preliminary remarks; 3.2 The first step; 3.3 The proposal; 4. A Detour; 4.1 Seriously?; 4.2 The progressive aspect and events in progress.
- 4.3 Against the competition4.4 Taking stock; 5. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; APPENDIX; References; 2: Indirect Directness; 3: Dispositions without Teleology; 1. Directedness and Dispositions; 2. Directedness, Dispositions, and Conditionals; 3. Directedness and Progressives; References; Analyticity Revisited; 4: Devious Stipulations; 1. Introduction; 2. V̀erdantly*;́ 3. G̀rassgreen;́ 4. P̀riman Beings;́ 5. Conclusion; References; 5: Stipulations and Requirements: Reply to Horden; References; What Reality is Like; 6: Colors as Primitive Dispositions; 1. Motivations and Puzzles.
- 1.1 The motivation for dispositionalism1.2 The motivation for primitivism; 1.3 The tension; 2. Appearance Properties as Dispositions to Appear F; 2.1 Appearance properties; 2.2 Appearance properties are dispositions to appear F; 3. What Colors are: Applying the Model; 3.1 Applying the model; 3.2 Metaphysical implications: between dispositionalism and primitivism; 4. Do Colors Look Non-Dispositional?; 4.1 Monadic (i.e. non-relational) properties; 4.2 Constant properties; 4.3 Categorical properties; 5. Do Colors Look Like Dispositions?; 5.1 Seeing colors as appearance properties.
- 5.2 Revelation?References; 7: Are There Ineffable Aspects of Reality?; 1. Introduction; 2. What is the question?; 3. In Support of the Ineffable; 3.1 Built-in cognitive limitations; 3.2 The argument from analogy; 3.3 Cardinality arguments; 3.4 Explaining effability; 3.5 The sources of ineffability; 4. The Sub-Algebra Hypothesis and its Consequences; 4.1 The hiddenness of the ineffable; 4.2 The sub-algebra hypothesis; 4.3 Ineffability and modesty; 5. Internalism, Effability, and Idealism; 5.1 Talk about propositions: that-clauses; 5.2 Talk about propositions: quantifiers.
- 5.3 Internalism vs. externalism5.4 Internalism and the effability thesis; 5.5 The proper formulation of internalism; 5.6 Explaining apparent ineffability; 5.7 The internalist picture of the propositional; 5.8 Idealism vindicated; 6. Conclusion; References; 8: The Metaphysics of Quantities and Their Dimensions; 1. Introduction; 2. Quantities, Scales, and Dimension Formulas; 3. The Positivist Theory of Dimensions, and its Opponents; 4. Building some quantities from others?; 5. Defending a Definitional Connection; 6. Definitional Connection Without Right Units; 7. Conclusion.