States of affairs / Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reicher, Maria Elisabeth, author.

Contributor:

Reicher, Maria Elisabeth.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis

Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 30

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heusenstamm [Germany] : ontos, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conju

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Reicher, Maria E.

Questions about States of Affairs / Armstrong, David M.

States of Affairs - the Full Picture / Meixner, Uwe

Facts and Connectors / Tegtmeier, Erwin

Facts and Things / Hochberg, Herbert

Why There Are No States of Affairs / Simons, Peter

Are Particulars or States of Affairs Given in Perception? / Textor, Mark

Time and Existence: A Critique of "Degree Presentism" / Oaklander, L. Nathan

Defending Existentialism? / David, Marian

Index

Authors

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-040-X

3-11-032602-7

OCLC:

851972141