Objects : nothing out of the ordinary / Daniel Z. Korman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korman, Daniel Z., author.

Contributor:

Zemack, Dana, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Conservatism--Philosophy.

Conservatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Nothing out of the ordinary

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Z. Korman defends a conservative and commonsense view of material-object metaphysics, and especially the question of which highly visible objects there are right before our eyes. He argues that our ordinary, natural judgments about what is there are more or less correct, and defends his claim against a variety of objections.

Contents:

1. INTRODUCTION.

2. THE ARGUMENTS. 1. Debunking Arguments ; 2. Arbitrariness Arguments ; 3. The Argument from Vagueness ; 4. Overdetermination Arguments ; 5. The Problem of Material Constitution ; 6. The Problem of the Many

3. THE POSITIONS. 1. Permissivism ; 2. Eliminativism ; 3. Conservatism

4. THE COUNTEREXAMPLES. 1. The Arguments from Counterexamples ; 2. Begging the Question ; 3. The Source of Justification ; 4. Charity and Analytic Entailments

5. COMPATIBILISM. 1. Varieties of Compatibilism ; 2. The Missing Evidence ; 3. Engagement and Semantic Blindness ; 4. Idle Equivocation ; 5. Metasemantics ; 6. Folk Capitulation ; 7. Ontological Insensitivity

6. ONTOLOGESE. 1. A Revolutionary Strategy ; 2. Deep Nihilism and Deep Universalism ; 3. Fundamentality, Parsimony, and Naturalness ; 4. Tweaking the Stipulation ; 5. Existential Puzzles ; 6. Existential₀ Puzzles ; 7. Deep Universalism

7. DEBUNKING. 1. Debunking Conservatism ; 2. Framing the Argument ; 3. The Permissive Response ; 4. Causal Connections ; 5. Apprehending the Facts ; 6. In Defense of Apprehension

8. ARBITRARINESS. 1. Phases ; 2. Roles ; 3. Scattered Objects ; 4. Artifacts ; 5. Carving at the Joints

9. VAGUENESS. 1. The Argument Stated ; 2. The Concreteness Predicate ; 3. Exact Cut-Offs ; 4. Borderline Composition without Existential Indeterminacy ; 5. Borderline Composition with Existential Indeterminacy ; 6. Ramifications of Embracing the Argument

10. OVERDETERMINATION. 1. Meeting the Conditions for Overdetermination ; 2. The Case Against Overdetermination ; 3. Blocking the Epistemic Argument

11. CONSTITUTION. 1. Monist Responses ; 2. The Alleged Ìsþ of Constitution ; 3. The Grounding Problem

12. THE MANY. 1. Undetached Parts and Maximality ; 2. Embracing the Many ; 3. Constitution and Indeterminacy ; 13: Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 06, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-104646-9

0-19-179676-X

0-19-104644-2