The Nature of Ordinary Objects
Published on 4. April 2019
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-1-107-16009-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-16009-5 (9781107160095)
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Persons
Javier Cumpa is Senior Fellow in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on metaphysics, and his work has been published in journals including Ratio, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies. Bill Brewer is Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. His publications include Perception and Reason (1999), Perception and Its Objects (2011), and numerous papers in journals and collections.
Content
Introduction: issues and options Javier Cumpa and Bill Brewer; 1. Perception and ordinary objects Alex Byrne; 2. Empirical evidence and the metaphysics of ordinary objects Thomas Hofweber; 3. Basic objects as grounds: a metaphysical manifesto Bill Brewer; 4. Ordinary objects Javier Cumpa; 5. Objects, ordinary and otherwise John Heil; 6. In defence of ordinary objects and a naturalistic answer to the special composition question Jonas Waechter and James Ladyman; 7. Compound natural beings: varieties of compositional unity Gary S. Rosenkrantz; 8. How can thought select between coincident material things? Rory Madden; 9. Against analytic existence entailments Peter van Inwagen; 10. Mass production Simon Evnine; 11. Pragmatism, ontology and ordinary objects Lynne Rudder Baker; 12. What can global pragmatists say about ordinary objects? Amie L. Thomasson; 13. There are no such things as ordinary objects Steven French.