Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties
Author:   Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199266494


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   21 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Things is a collection of twelve metaphysical essays by Stephen Yablo. The essays address a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, existence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, Yablo maintains; 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. Yablo 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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.

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Author:   Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9780199266494


ISBN 10:   0199266492
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   21 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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

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