Things : papers on objects, events, and properties /
This is a collection of 12 essays on identity, essence, causation, properties, ontology, and metaontology, with an emphasis on the metaontology of abstract objects. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Conten...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Yablo, Stephen. Philosophical papers ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Identity, essence, and indiscernibility
- Intrinsicness
- Cause and essence
- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation
- Does ontology rest on a mistake?
- Apriority and existence
- Go figure : a path through fictionalism
- Abstract objects : a case study
- The myth of the seven
- Carving content at the joints
- Non-catastrophic presupposition failure
- Must existence-questions have answers?