Things - Stephen Yablo

Things

Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties

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Buch | Softcover
334 Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-926649-4 (ISBN)
51,70 inkl. MwSt
Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on identity, essence, causation, properties, ontology, and metaontology, with an emphasis on the metaontology of abstract objects. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished "Carving Content at the Joints."
Things is a collection of twelve metaphysical essays by Stephen Yablo. The essays address a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, existence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, Yablo maintains; there is nothing at issue in them. Several of the papers explore the metaontology of abstract objects, and more generally of objects that are 'preconceived', their principal features being settled already by their job-descriptions. Yablo rejects standard forms of fictionalism, opting ultimately for a view that puts presupposition in the role normally played by pretense. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.

Stephen Yablo is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1. Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility ; 2. Intrinsicness ; 3. Cause and Essence ; 4. De Facto Dependence ; 5. Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake? ; 6. Apriority and Existence ; 7. Go Figure ; 8. Abstract Objects ; 9. The Myth of the Seven ; 10. Carving Content at the Joints ; 11. Must Existence -Questions Have Answers? ; 12. Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.10.2010
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 512 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 0-19-926649-2 / 0199266492
ISBN-13 978-0-19-926649-4 / 9780199266494
Zustand Neuware
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