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Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties - Hardcover

Yablo, Stephen

 
9780199266487: Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199266484 ISBN 13: 9780199266487
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Things is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on metaphysics. He examines a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, he argues: 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. He 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 Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199266484
ISBN 13 
9780199266487
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
323