Natural and artifactual objects in contemporary metaphysics : exercises in analytic ontology
Natural and artifactual objects in contemporary metaphysics
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | vi, 237 sider
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| Utgave | Paperback edition
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| Opplysninger | Først utgitt: 2019. - Introduction: Carving Nature at the Joints, Richard Davies Part I: Does Nature Carve Itself? 1. Mental acts, externalism and fiat objects: an Ockhamist solution, Riccardo Fedriga 2. Is the World really a World of Objects? A Note on Quinean Ontology, Antonio Rainone 3. Spatial Fictionalism. A Solution of the Grounding Problem, Nicola Piras 4. Talking about Properties: A Couple of Doubts about Hofweber's Internalist View, Elisa Paganini Part II: Where Do Limits Lie? 5. The Eye of the Needle: Seeing Holes, Clotilde Calabi 6. Bona Fideness of Material Entities and their Boundaries, Lars Vogt 7. A Conceptualist View in the Metaphysics of Species, Ciro De Florio and Aldo Frigerio Part III: Where Do Tools Come From? 8. Artifacts and fiat objects: two families apart?, Massimiliano Carrara and Marzia Soavi 9. The Semantics of Artifactual Words, Marco Santambrogio10. Are linguistic objects fiat or bona fide? An ancient proposal, Maddalena Bonelli Part IV: What Does Mind-Dependency Depend On? 11. Leibniz's principle and psycho-neural identity, Andrea Bottani and Alfredo Paternoster 12. Do we exist? Mereological nihilism, collective thinking and dualism, Alfredo Tomasetta Abstracts Index of Names Index of Principal Subjects. - "This collection presents a lively, timely discussion of natural and artifactual objects, considering the relationship between them from a range of philosophical perspectives, including the philosophy of biology, the metaphysics of space and the philosophy of perception.Beginning from the starting point that natural objects are bona fide, endowed with some natural border between themselves and everything else, while artifactual objects depend on the observation of tacit conventions and may include the ordinary objects of everyday life, this volume explores, contextualises and interrogates objects. Contributors discuss a variety of objects including physical, scientific and mental ones, as well as things that appear to question the limits of object-hood, including holes, Quinean 'posits' and language."
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| ISBN | 9781350175433
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