Reality making / Mark Jago.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jago, Mark, editor.

Series:

Mind Association occasional series.

Mind Association occasional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality.

Metaphysics.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? Here a new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics.

Contents:

Laws and the completeness of the fundamental / Martin Glazier

Metaphysical interdependence / Naomi Thompson

Monism and gunk / Jacek Brzozowski

What are dispositional properties? / Matthew Tugby

Essence and the grounding problem / Mark Jago

Object as a determinable / Nicholas K. Jones

Rethinking origin essentialism (for artefacts) / Sonia Roca-Royes

How (not) to be a modalist about essence / Nathan Wildman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 27, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-181687-6

OCLC:

945736434