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The Nature of Ordinary Objects
About this book
The metaphysics of ordinary objects is an increasingly vibrant field of study for philosophers. This volume gathers insights from a number of leading authors, who together tackle the central issues in contemporary debates about the subject. Their essays engage with topics including composition, persistence, perception, categories, images, artifacts, truthmakers, metaontology, and the relationship between the manifest and scientific images. Exploring the nature of everyday things, the contributors situate their arguments and the latest research against the background of the field's development. Moreover, many essays propose new ideas and approaches, looking ahead to the future of the metaphysical study of ordinary objects. Featuring numerous clearly explained examples and with thoughtful links drawn to other, related disciplines such as pragmatism, this wide-ranging volume fills a major gap in the literature and will be important for scholars working in metaphysics.
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Epistemology in PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Issues and Options
- 1 Perception and Ordinary Objects
- 2 Empirical Evidence and the Metaphysics of Ordinary Objects
- 3 Basic Objects As Grounds: A Metaphysical Manifesto
- 4 Objects, Ordinary and Otherwise
- 5 In Defence of Ordinary Objects and a Naturalistic Answer to the Special Composition Question
- 6 Compound Natural Beings: Varieties of Compositional Unity
- 7 How Can Thought Select Between Coincident Material Things?
- 8 Against Analytic Existence Entailments
- 9 Mass Production
- 10 Pragmatism, Ontology and Ordinary Objects
- 11 What Can Global Pragmatists Say About Ordinary Objects?
- 12 There Are No Such Things As Ordinary Objects
- Bibliography
- Index
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