Stephen Yablo

Things

Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished "Carving Content at the Joints."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780199266487
• ISBN-10: 0199266484
• Artikelnr.: 33604635

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1: Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility
2: Intrinsicness
3: Cause and Essence
4: De Facto Dependence
5: Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?
6: Apriority and Existence
7: Go Figure
8: Abstract Objects
9: The Myth of the Seven
10: Carving Content at the Joints
11: Must Existence -Questions Have Answers?
12: Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure