Natural and artifactual objects in contemporary metaphysics : exercises in analytic ontology /
What is an object? How do we look at them? Why do they matter? This collection presents a lively, timely discussion of natural and artifactual objects, considering the relationship between them from a range of philosophical perspectives, including the philosophy of biology, the metaphysics of space...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Mental acts, externalism and fiat objects: an Ockhamist solution / Riccardo Fedriga
- Is the world really a world of objects? A note on Quinean ontology / Antonio Rainone
- Spatial fictionalism. A solution of the grounding problem / Nicola Piras
- Talking about properties: a couple of doubts about Hofweber's internalist view / Elisa Paganini
- The eye of the needle: seeing holes / Clotilde Calabi
- Bona fideness of material entities and their boundaries / Lars Vogt
- A conceptualist view in the metaphysics of species / Ciro De Florio and Aldo Frigerio
- Artifacts and fiat objects: two families apart? / Massimiliano Carrara and Marzia Soavi
- The semantics of artifactual words / Marco Santambrogio
- Are linguistic objects fiat or bona fide? An ancient proposal / Maddalena Bonelli
- Leibniz's principle and psycho-neural identity / Andrea Bottani and Alfredo Paternoster
- Do we exist? Mereological nihilism, collective thinking and dualism / Alfredo Tomasetta.