Reality Making

Herausgeber: Jago, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? A new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755722
• ISBN-10: 0198755724
• Artikelnr.: 47866732

Autorenporträt

Mark Jago is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He writes on metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Martin Glazier: Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental
2: Naomi Thompson: Metaphysical Interdependence
3: Jacek Brzozowski: Monism and Gunk
4: Matthew Tugby: What Are Dispositional Properties?
5: Mark Jago: Essence and the Grounding Problem
6: Nicholas K. Jones: Object as a determinable
7: Sonia Roca-Royes: Rethinking Origin Essentialism (for artefacts)
8: Nathan Wildman: How (not) to be a modalist about essence