The double lives of objects : an essay in the metaphysics of the ordinary world / Thomas Sattig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sattig, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Thomas Sattig develops a novel philosophical picture of ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and trees. He carves a middle way between classical mereology and Aristotelian hylomorphism, and argues that objects lead double lives. They are compounds of matter and form, and each object's matter and form have different qualitative profiles.

Contents:

1 Q-Hylomorphism 1

1.1 Classical Mereology and Aristotelian Hylomorphism 1

1.2 Material Objects, Sortals, and K-paths 13

1.3 Q-Hylomorphism about Ordinary Objects 22

2 Perspectivalism 32

2.1 Representing Ordinary Objects 32

2.2 Modes of Predication and Q-Hylomorphism 43

2.3 Metaphysics, Metaphysical Semantics, and Common Sense 67

3 Coincidence 75

3.1 Paradoxes of Coincidence 75

3.2 Incompatibilism about Coincidence 79

3.3 Compatibilism about Coincidence 88

4 Discontinuity 104

4.1 Paradoxes of Fission 105

4.2 Compatibilism about Fission 115

4.3 Paradoxes of Intermittent Existence 127

5 Modality 134

5.1 A Modal Paradox of Coincidence 135

5.2 The Grounding Problem 149

5.3 Transworld Identity and Sufficiency 154

6 Determinism 166

6.1 Weak and Strong Qualitative Determinism 166

6.2 The Problem of Cheap Indeterminism 170

6.3 Material Determinism and Formal Branching 184

7 Indeterminacy 190

7.1 Indeterminacy De Dicto and the Problem of the Many 191

7.2 Fundamental Indeterminacy De Re and Coincidence 195

7.3 Derivative Indeterminacy De Re 200

8 Relativity 219

8.1 The Problem of Relativistic Change 219

8.2 No Easy Way Out 228

8.3 Compatibilism about Relativistic Change 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.

ISBN:

9780199683017

0199683018

OCLC:

892895329