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Title: Ordinary Objects

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Language:        English

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Length:        240 Pages
Weight:        1 Pounds
Height:         8.5 Inches
Width:          5.8 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



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Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent. Some are based on demands for parsimony or for a non-arbitrary answer to the special composition question; others arise from prohibitions against causal redundancy, ontological vagueness, or co-location; and others still come from worries that a common sense ontology would be a rival to a scientific one. Until now, little has been done to address these arguments in a unified and systematic way. Ordinary Objects is designed to fill this gap, demonstrating that the mistakes behind all of these superficially diverse eliminativist arguments may be traced to a common source. It aims to develop an ontology of ordinary objects subject to no such problems, providing perhaps the first sustained defense of a common sense ontology in two generations. The work done along the way addresses a number of major issues in philosophy of language and metaphysics, contributing to debates about analyticity, identity conditions, co-location and the grounding problem, vagueness, overdetermination, parsimony, and ontological commitment. In the end, the most important result of addressing these eliminativist arguments is not merely avoiding their conclusions; examining their failings also gives us reason to suspect that many apparent disputes in ontology are pseudo-debates. For it brings into question widely-held assumptions about which uses of metaphysical principles are appropriate, which metaphysical demands are answerable, and how we should go about addressing such fundamental questions as "What exists?". As a result, the work of Ordinary Objects promises to provide not only the route to a reflective understanding of our unreflective common-sense view, but also a better understanding of the proper methods and limits of metaphysics.



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"In ORDINARY OBJECTS, Amie L. Thomasson mounts a spirited and vigorous defence of the reality of ordinary objects."
(06/06/2008)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Ordinary Objects and it was written by Amie L. Thomasson. This edition of Ordinary Objects is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is June 2007 and it has a suggested retail price of $85. There are 240 pages in the book and it was published by Oxford Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0195319915 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780195319910. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.