Reality Making

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Mind Association Occasional Series

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Beskrivning

What makes up reality, and how? 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? These questions are central to contemporary metaphysics. The papers in this collection, written by a new generation of metaphysicians, address these and related questions. They investigate the metaphysical concepts of grounding and fundamentality, and the relationship between the fundamental and all the other parts of reality. Together, these papers represent the cutting-edge of a central topic in contemporary metaphysics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-11
Mått:158 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Mind Association Occasional Series
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198755722

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

All told, the papers in this volume are substantive and, in many cases, compelling ... Reality Making offers something of value to anyone with an interest in grounding, fundamentality and essentialism.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental ; 2. Metaphysical Interdependence ; 3. Monism and Gunk ; 4. What Are Dispositional Properties? ; 5. Essence and the Grounding Problem ; 6. Object as a determinable ; 7. Rethinking Origin Essentialism (for artefacts) ; 8. How (not) to be a modalist about essence