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Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties - Couverture rigide

Yablo, Stephen

 
9780199266487: Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199266484 ISBN 13 : 9780199266487
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Yablo is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199266484
ISBN 13 
9780199266487
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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