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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Bennett (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780199682683ISBN 10: 0199682682 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 01 June 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Building I: Breaking Ground 3: Building II: Characterizing the Class 4: Causing 5: Absolute Fundamentality 6: Relative Fundamentality 7: Building Building? 8: In Defense of the NonfundamentalReviewsKaren Bennett's Making Things Up is a well-written, engaging, and meaningful contribution to the ever-growing literature on metaphysical grounding and fundamentality. * J. Spencer Atkins, Metascience * The book makes an important contribution to the metaphysical literature, in particular to the study of fundamentality and to metametaphysics. * Jan Plate, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Dialectica * The book contains some real gems, including Bennett's development and defense of a kind of pluralism about both building and fundamentality and her incisive discussion of the idea of a natural property as developed by Lewis and Sider. ... This book makes an important contribution and should be required reading for philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. * Louis deRosset, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * The book contains some real gems, including Bennett's development and defense of a kind of pluralism about both building and fundamentality and her incisive discussion of the idea of a natural property as developed by Lewis and Sider. ... This book makes an important contribution and should be required reading for philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. * Louis deRosset, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Author InformationKaren Bennett is Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000, and has also held regular or visiting positions at Princeton University, New York University, and the Australian National University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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