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ISBN10: 0195319915, ISBN13: 9780195319910, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0195319915, ISBN13: 9780195319910, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent. Some are based on demands for parsimony or for a non-arbitrary answer to the special composition question; others arise from prohibitions against causal redundancy, ontological vagueness, or co-location; and others still come from worries that a common sense ontology would be a rival to a scientificone.Until now, little has been done to address these arguments in a unified and systematic way. Ordinary Objects is designed to fill this gap, demonstrating that the mistakesbehind all of these superficially diverse eliminativist arguments may be traced to a common source. It aims to develop an ontology of ordinary objects subject to no such problems, providing perhaps the first sustained defense of a common sense ontology in two generations. The work done along the way addresses a number of major issues in philosophy of language and metaphysics, contributing to debates about analyticity, identity conditions, co-location and the grounding problem, vagueness,overdetermination, parsimony, and ontological commitment.In the end, the most important result of addressing these eliminativist arguments is not merely avoiding their conclusions;examining their failings also gives us reason to suspect that m ...
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 256 p.

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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 256 p.

ISBN10: 0195319915, ISBN13: 9780195319910, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent. Some are based on demands for parsimony or for a non-arbitrary answer to the special composition question; others arise from prohibitions against causal redundancy, ontological vagueness, or co-location; and others still come from worries that a common sense ontology would be a rival to a scientificone.Until now, little has been done to address these arguments in a unified and systematic way. Ordinary Objects is designed to fill this gap, demonstrating that the mistakesbehind all of these superficially diverse eliminativist arguments may be traced to a common source. It aims to develop an ontology of ordinary objects subject to no such problems, providing perhaps the first sustained defense of a common sense ontology in two generations. The work done along the way addresses a number of major issues in philosophy of language and metaphysics, contributing to debates about analyticity, identity conditions, co-location and the grounding problem, vagueness,overdetermination, parsimony, and ontological commitment.In the end, the most important result of addressing these eliminativist arguments is not merely avoiding their conclusions;examining their failings also gives us reason to suspect that m ...
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ISBN10: 0195319915, ISBN13: 9780195319910, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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