
Things
Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties
Stephen Yablo(Author)
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-0-19-926649-4 (ISBN)
Description
Things is a collection of twelve metaphysical essays by Stephen Yablo. The essays address a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, existence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, Yablo maintains; 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. Yablo 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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
509 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926649-4 (9780199266494)
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10/2010
1st Edition
Oxford University Press
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Person
Stephen Yablo is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Content
1. Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility ; 2. Intrinsicness ; 3. Cause and Essence ; 4. De Facto Dependence ; 5. Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake? ; 6. Apriority and Existence ; 7. Go Figure ; 8. Abstract Objects ; 9. The Myth of the Seven ; 10. Carving Content at the Joints ; 11. Must Existence -Questions Have Answers? ; 12. Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure