Objects Identity And Modality
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Objects Identity And Modality
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language : en
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Release Date : 2014
Objects Identity And Modality written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Philosophical reflection on our ordinary beliefs about material objects reveals that the picture they suggest is riddled with problems. While some philosophers think that these problems can be adequately addressed while leaving the core beliefs intact, others take them to show that the picture is fundamentally mistaken. I fall in the latter camp. In this dissertation, I defend ontological nihilism (just nihilism, from here forth), the view that there is no mind-independent material individuation and so, there are no material objects. My first main task is to argue that the ordinary view of objects--the view that all and only the sorts of objects we ordinarily recognize as existing (e.g. trees, books, atoms, cats etc.)--cannot be maintained in light of the aforementioned problems. The second task is to provide a defense of nihilism. My main argument centers on the significance of objects' de re modal properties in fixing their identity conditions: I argue that if objects' modal properties are not real--that is, if they are fixed by our thoughts and beliefs and not by the mind-independent world--then the objects that possess those modal properties are not real. I then argue that it is implausible that objects' modal properties are fixed by the mind-independent world. These claims jointly entail that there are no material objects. Following this, I defend the plausibility of an objectless ontology--an ontology of unindividuated material "stuff". Here I address concerns about reference and the existential quantifier, show that a paraphrase strategy can adequately accommodate our everyday thought and talk, and argue that nothing I say is inconsistent with our best science. The final part of my defense of nihilism concerns explaining exactly why and how eliminating objects provides a unified solution to a slew of difficult metaphysical puzzles. I conclude by arguing that while nihilism is not the most intuitive view, it does not conflict with common sense to the degree that it initially seems.
Identity And Modality
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Author : Fraser MacBride
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-07-20
Identity And Modality written by Fraser MacBride and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-20 with Philosophy categories.
The papers in this volume address fundamental, and interrelated, philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that have not only been pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, but remain a key focus of metaphysical debate in the twenty-first. How are we to understand the concepts of necessity and possibility? Is chance a basic ingredient of reality? How are we to make sense of claims about personal identity? Do numbers require distinctive identity criteria? Does the capacity to identify an object presuppose an ability to bring it under a sortal concept? Rather than presenting a single, partisan perspective, Identity and Modality enriches our understanding of identity and modality by bringing together papers written by leading researchers working in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics. The resulting variety of perspectives correspondingly reflects both the breadth and depth of contemporary theorizing about identity and modality, each paper addressing a particular issue and advancing our knowledge of the area. This volume will provide essential reading for graduate students in the subject and professional philosophers.
Material Beings
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Author : Peter van Inwagen
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1990
Material Beings written by Peter van Inwagen and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
In this bold and original book, the author develops a provocative theory about the metaphysics of material objects. According to this view, visible inanimate objects such as ships or mountains or stars do not, strictly speaking, exist.
Ontology Identity And Modality
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Author : Peter van Inwagen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-22
Ontology Identity And Modality written by Peter van Inwagen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-22 with Mathematics categories.
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen's essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in their field. They range widely across such topics as Quine's philosophy of quantification, the ontology of fiction, the part-whole relation, the theory of 'temporal parts', and human knowledge of modal truths. In addition, van Inwagen considers the question as to whether the psychological continuity theory of personal identity is compatible with materialism, and defends the thesis that possible states of affairs are abstract objects, in opposition to David Lewis's 'extreme modal realism'. A specially-written introduction completes the collection, which will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in metaphysics.
Objects And Modalities
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Author : Tero Tulenheimo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Objects And Modalities written by Tero Tulenheimo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Philosophy categories.
This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics. Addressing a wide range of questions vital for contemporary debates in logic and philosophy of language and offering new tools for theoretical linguistics and knowledge representation, the book proposes a radically new paradigm in modal semantics. This framework is motivated philosophically, viewing a structure of world lines as a precondition of modal talk. The author provides a uniform analysis of quantification over individuals (physical objects) and objects of thought (intentional objects). The semantic account of what it means to speak of intentional objects throws new light on accounts of intentionality and singular thought in the philosophy of mind and offers novel insights into the semantics of intensional transitive verbs.
Objects And Identity
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Author : Harold W. Noonan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Objects And Identity written by Harold W. Noonan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Philosophy categories.
Identity has for long been an important concept in philosophy and logic. Plato in his Sophist puts same among those fonns which "run through" all others. The scholastics inherited the idea (and the tenninology), classifying same as one of the "transcendentals", i.e. as running through all the categories. The work of Locke and l.eibniz made the concept a problematic one. But it is rather recently, i.e. since the importance of Frege has been generally recognized, that there has been a keen interest in the notion, fonnulated by him, of a criterion of identity. This, at first sight harmless as well as useful, has proved to be like a charge of dynamite. The seed had indeed been sown long ago, by Euclid. In Book V of his Elements he first gives a useless defmition of a ratio: "A ratio is a sort of relation between two magnitudes in respect of muchness". But then, in definition 5 he answers, not the question "What is a ratio?" but rather ''What is it for magnitudes to be in the same ratio?" and this is the definition that does the work.
Things
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Author : Stephen Yablo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2010
Things written by Stephen Yablo and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Philosophy categories.
Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on identity, essence, causation, properties, ontology, and metaontology, with an emphasis on the metaontology of abstract objects. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished "Carving Content at the Joints."
Objects And Identity
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Author : Harold W. Noonan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Objects And Identity written by Harold W. Noonan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with categories.
Objects And Identity
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Author : Harold W. Noonan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Objects And Identity written by Harold W. Noonan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Double Lives Of Objects
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Author : Thomas Sattig
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-02-19
The Double Lives Of Objects written by Thomas Sattig and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-19 with Philosophy categories.
Thomas Sattig develops and defends a novel philosophical picture of ordinary objects, such as persons, tables, trees, and mountains. His theory carves a middle way between the two accounts that have dominated traditional metaphysics of material objects, namely, classical mereology and Aristotelian hylomorphism. It answers metaphysical, semantical, and psychological questions in a unified framework: What is the nature of ordinary objects? How do we speak about such objects? And how do we conceive of them? The core thesis is that ordinary objects lead double lives: they are compounds of matter and form; and since their matter and form have different qualitative profiles, ordinary objects can be described differently from different conceptual perspectives. A philosophical theory of ordinary objects faces the hard task of saving our common-sense conception of objects from a wide range of hard problems that present our familiar worldview as internally inconsistent and as incompatible with plausible metaphysical principles. The book argues that the proposed theory does a better job than its rivals in saving the appearances. The key that unlocks each problem is that seemingly inconsistent judgements about objects are really consistent because they manifest different perspectives on the same double-layered objects. Many long-standing philosophical mysteries about ordinary objects dissolve, once we realize that they lead double lives. The theory contributes to a wide variety of philosophical debates, including those about parts and composition, persistence, coincidence and constitution, personal identity, modality de re, the grounding problem, determinism, vague objects, the problem of the many, and relativistic metaphysics.