Quantifier variance and realism : essays in metaontology / Eli Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Eli, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Metaphysics.

Object (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages)

Other Title:

Essays in metaontology

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time (culminating in the 1982 OUP book The Concept of Identity). Within the last 10 years, his work on realism and quantifier variance has been front-and-center in the minds of many metaphysicians. Metametaphysics, which looks at foundational questions about the very practice of metaphysics and the questions it raises, is now a popular area of discussion. There is a lot of anxiety about what ontology is, and Hirsch's diagnosis of how revisionary ontologists go wrong is one of

Contents:

A sense of unity

Basic objects : a reply to Xu

Objectivity without objects

The vagueness of identity

Quantifier variance and realism

Against revisionary ontology

Comments on Theodore Sider's four dimensionalism

Sosa's existential relativism

Physical-object ontology, verbal disputes, and common sense

Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance

Language, ontology, and structure

Ontology and alternative languages.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045349-4

0-19-026750-X

1-283-00988-9

9786613009883

0-19-978071-4

OCLC:

704533814