Crawford L. Elder

Familiar Objects and Their Shadows

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that sceptical metaphysicians employ shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781107665781
• ISBN-10: 1107665787
• Artikelnr.: 38598117

Autorenporträt

Crawford L. Elder is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Two false friends of an ontology of familiar objects
2. Conventionalism as ontological relativism
3. Realism about material objects: persistence, persistence conditions, and natural kinds
4. Ontological preference for the temporally small
5. Ontological preference for microphysical causes
6. Ontological preference for the spatially small
7. A third false friend of familiar objects: universal mereological composition
8. Concluding Hegelian postscript
Appendix: 'mutually interfering' dimensions of difference
Reference.