Things papers on objects, events, and properties
Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on metaphysics. He examines a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, he argues: there is nothing at issue in them. Several of the paper...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
2010
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| Colección: | Philosophical papers (Oxford University Press) ;
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b20484458*spi |
| Sumario: | Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on metaphysics. He examines a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, he argues: 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. He 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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints' |
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| Descripción Física: | 323 p. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199266494 9780199266487 |
