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Natural and artifactual objects in contemporary metaphysics : exercises in analytic ontology /

"What is an object? How do we look at them? Why do they matter? This collection presents a lively, timely discussion of natural and artifactual objects, considering the relationship between them from a range of philosophical perspectives, including the philosophy of biology, the metaphysics of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davies, Richard, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Mental acts, externalism and fiat objects: an Ockhamist solution / Riccardo Fedriga
  • Is the world really a world of objects? A note on Quinean ontology / Antonio Rainone
  • Spatial fictionalism. A solution of the grounding problem / Nicola Piras
  • Talking about properties: a couple of doubts about Hofweber's internalist view / Elisa Paganini
  • The eye of the needle: seeing holes / Clotilde Calabi
  • Bona fideness of material entities and their boundaries / Lars Vogt
  • A conceptualist view in the metaphysics of species / Ciro De Florio and Aldo Frigerio
  • Artifacts and fiat objects: two families apart? / Massimiliano Carrara and Marzia Soavi
  • The semantics of artifactual words / Marco Santambrogio
  • Are linguistic objects fiat or bona fide? An ancient proposal / Maddalena Bonelli
  • Leibniz's principle and psycho-neural identity / Andrea Bottani and Alfredo Paternoster
  • Do we exist? Mereological nihilism, collective thinking and dualism / Alfredo Tomasetta.