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UNINA9910782227003321 |
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Oxford studies in metaphysics . Volume 4 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dean W. Zimmerman |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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1-383-04503-8 |
1-281-82576-X |
9786611825768 |
0-19-156231-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Younger Scholar Prize Announcement; I. QUINE'S 1946 LECTURE ON NOMINALISM: A SYMPOSIUM; 1. Nominalism; 2. Quine and Tarski on Nominalism; 3. Cats, Dogs, and so on; 4. Quine's Lecture on Nominalism from the Perspective of a Nominalist; 5. A World of Concrete Particulars; 6. Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism; II. SOME PRINCIPLES CONCERNING DEPENDENCE AND NECESSITY; 7. Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism; 8. Truthmakers and Predication; 9. On Locating Composite Objects; III. GUNK AND BLOBS; 10. Gunk, Topology, and Measure |
11. The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space12. Beware of the Blob: Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. A special feature of this volume is an unpublished paper on nominalism by W. V. Quine, arguably the most influential figure in philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. It is accompanied by five specially commissioned commentaries. - ;Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today |
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