Things : papers on objects, events, and properties / Stephen Yablo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yablo, Stephen, author.

Series:

Yablo, Stephen. Philosophical papers ; v. 2.

Philosophical papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Papers on objects, events, and properties

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of 12 essays on identity, essence causation, properties, ontology, and metaontology, with an emphasis on the metaontology of abstract objects. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.

Contents:

Identity, essence, and indiscernibility

Intrinsicness

Cause and essence

Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation

Does ontology rest on a mistake?

Apriority and existence

Go figure : a path through fictionalism

Abstract objects : a case study

The myth of the seven

Carving content at the joints

Non-catastrophic presupposition failure

Must existence-questions have answers?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-159427-X

0-19-926648-4