Familiar Objects and their Shadows
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991008704659708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction ; 1. Two false friends of an ontology of familiar objects ; 2. Conventionalism as ontological relativism ; 3. Realism about material objects: persistence, persistence conditions, and natural kinds ; 4. Ontological preference for the temporally small ; 5. Ontological preference for microphysical causes ; 6. Ontological preference for the spatially small ; 7. A third false friend of familiar objects: universal mereological composition ; 8. Concluding Hegelian postscript ; Appendix: 'mutually interfering' dimensions of difference; Reference
