Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties (Philosophical Papers) - Couverture souple

Yablo, Stephen

 
9780199266494: Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties (Philosophical Papers)
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ISBN 10 : 0199266492 ISBN 13 : 9780199266494
Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Synopsis

Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on metaphysics. He examines a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, he argues: 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. He 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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.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, U.S.A.
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199266492
ISBN 13 
9780199266494
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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9780199266487: Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties

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ISBN 10 :  0199266484 ISBN 13 :  9780199266487
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010
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