Objects and persons / Trenton Merricks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merricks, Trenton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Agent (Philosophy).

Causation.

Whole and parts (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work presents a theory about what kind of things exist. Trenton Merricks defends the following criterion for existence of a physical object: that it has a causal role over and above that of its parts.

Contents:

""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""1. Explaining Eliminativism""; ""I. Eliminativism: The Basic Idea""; ""II. Eliminativism: Not as Bad as you might Think""; ""III. The Linguistic Charge of Contradiction""; ""IV. The Metaphysical Charge of Contradiction""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""2. Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism""; ""I. The Water in the Pool""; ""II. The Sorites Game""; ""III. The Statue and the Lump""; ""IV. Brains and Thinkers""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""3. Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism""; ""I. The Causal Principle""; ""II. Atomic Causation""; ""III. Causal Overdetermination""

""IV. The Moral of the Overdetermination Argument""""V. Conclusion""; ""4. Surviving Eliminativism""; ""I. Step One""; ""II. Conscious Mental Properties and Premiss (1a)""; ""III. Objections to the Defence of Premiss (1a)""; ""IV. Step One Again""; ""V. Step Two""; ""VI. On What Composite Objects Exist""; ""VII. Conclusion""; ""5. Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us?""; ""I. Persons and the Water in the Pool""; ""II. Persons and the Sorites Game""; ""III. Statues,Lumps,and Persons""; ""IV. Brains,Thinkers,and Persons""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""6. Mental Causation and Free Will""

""I. The Exclusion Argument(s)""""II. Causal Overdetermination Again""; ""III. The �Bottom-Up� Threat to Free Will""; ""IV. Conclusion""; ""7. Belief and Practice""; ""I. False Folk Beliefs""; ""II. False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Justification""; ""III. False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Practice""; ""IV. And Yet I Often Say �There are statues�""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-926631-X

1-281-98988-6

9786611989880

0-19-152968-0

OCLC:

317146073