Real natures and familiar objects /

In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with qualifications, the ontology of common sense. He argues that we exist--that no gloss is necessary for the statement "human beings exist" to show that it is true of the world as it really is--and that we are surrounded by man...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elder, Crawford
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
©2004
Series:Bradford book.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Ontology.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Ontologie.
epistemology.
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conventionalism: epistemology made easy, ontology made paradoxical
  • 2. The epistemology of real natures
  • 3. Real essential natures, or merely real kinds?
  • 4. Mental causation versus physical causation: coincidences and accidents
  • 5. Causes in the special sciences and the fallacy of composition
  • 6. A partial response to compositional vagueness
  • 7. Artifacts and other copied kinds
  • 8. Why austerity in ontology does not work: the importance of biological.

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