Universe As We Find It

Name: Universe As We Find It
Brand: OUP Oxford
Price: 31.79 EUR
Availability: OnlineOnly

Unknown(Autor*in)

OUP Oxford (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 1. Juli 2012

326 Seiten

E-Book

PDF mit Adobe-DRM

Systemvoraussetzungen

978-0-19-163284-6 (ISBN)

31,79 €inkl. 7% MwSt.

Systemvoraussetzungen

für PDF mit Adobe-DRM

E-Book Einzellizenz

Als Download verfügbar

Beschreibung

Weitere Details

Weitere Ausgaben

Inhalt

Cover
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Ground Rules
1.2 The Province of Metaphysics
1.3 Substance and Property
1.4 Relations
1.5 Truthmaking
1.6 The Big Picture
2 Substance
2.1 Substances as Property Bearers
2.2 Substance Situated
2.3 Substance and Property
2.4 Simple Substances
2.5 Properties and Properties by Courtesy
2.6 Emergent Substances
2.7 Real Emergence
2.8 Back to Basics
3 Substance Stressed
3.1 Ontological Dependence
3.2 Spatial and Temporal Parts
3.3 Complexity 'All the Way Down'
3.4 Infinite Divisibility
3.5 An Infinity of Substances
3.6 The Weirdness of Actual Infinities
3.7 From the Weirdness of Infinity to Quantum Weirdness
3.8 Quantum Statistics
3.9 Taking Stock
4 Properties
4.1 Substances, Properties, Truthmakers
4.2 Properties as Qualities
4.3 'Categorical Properties'
4.4 Properties as Powers
4.5 'Scientiphicalism'
4.6 Idealism and the 'Mystery of the Physical'
4.7 Powers without Qualities
4.8 Purely Relational Universes
4.9 Scientific Abstraction
4.10 Reciprocity
4.11 Contingency
4.12 Qualities Unleashed
4.13 Primary and Secondary Qualities
4.14 Powerful Qualities
5 Universals
5.1 Comme il Faut Philosophy
5.2 Historical Reminder
5.3 Terminological Interlude
5.4 Similarity and Identity
5.5 Costs and Benefits
5.6 Williams on Universals
5.7 'Painless Realism'
5.8 Modes and Tropes
5.9 Santayana to Lewis via Williams
5.10 Williams's Santayana
6 Causing
6.1 The Received View
6.2 The Causal Nexus
6.3 Powers, Dispositions
6.4 Liabilities of the Received View
6.5 Causing and Indeterminacy
6.6 Absences, Preventers, Antidotes, Blockers, Inhibitors, Finks
6.7 Is Causality Fundamental?
6.8 The Horse Before the Cart
7 Relations
7.1 Towards an Ontology of Relations
7.2 The Truthmaker Gap
7.3 Relations: An Opinionated History
7.4 The Ontology of Relations
7.5 Take Relations . . . Please
8 Truthmaking
8.1 Why You Should Care
8.2 Truthmaking as Entailment
8.3 'Truth Supervenes on Being'
8.4 Truth Bearers
8.5 Truthmaking and Quantification
8.6 Truth and Existence
8.7 A Truthmaker for Every Truth?
8.8 Logic and Mathematics
8.9 Non-Trivial Necessities
8.10 Truthmaking and Serious Ontology
9 Reduction, Kinds, and Essences
9.1 Big Pictures
9.2 Non-Reductive Physicalism: Background
9.3 Davidson: First Impressions
9.4 Davidson: Beyond First Impressions
9.5 Fodor's Anti-Reductionism
9.6 Boyd on Reduction and Natural Kinds
9.7 Similarity in the Special Sciences
9.8 Essence
9.9 A Universe without Essences
9.10 Historical Caveat
10 Mind and Mentality
10.1 Philosophical Puzzlement
10.2 Philosophical Fashion
10.3 The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'
10.4 Property Dualism
10.5 Metaphysical Infelicities
10.6 Back to the Drawing Board
11 Consciousness
11.1 Conscious Experience
11.2 Investigating Conscious Experiences
11.3 Representationalism
11.4 'Diaphanous' Experiences
11.5 Experiential Qualities
11.6 Could Experiences Really Be 'Brain Processes'?
11.7 Manufacturing Qualities
11.8 Qualities of Experiences
12 Conscious Thought
12.1 Conscious Thinking
12.2 Thinking and Speaking
12.3 Davidson on Higher-Order Thought
12.4 Bermúdez's Argument
12.5 Thoughts and their Expression
12.6 Thought
12.7 Images, Sentential and Otherwise
12.8 Proto-Language
12.9 Non-Conscious Thought
12.10 Language in Its Place
13 The Ontological Turn
13.1 Ontological Convergence
13.2 Bottom-Up Ontology
13.3 Serious Ontology
Bibliography
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Z

Systemvoraussetzungen

Als PDF speichern Als Link merken