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Ontology Without Borders (Hardcover)
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Ontology Without Borders (Hardcover)
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Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about
them) is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation
conditions. They appear to have boundaries in space and time, for
example, and they appear to move independently of a background of
other objects or a landscape. In Ontology Without Boundaries Jody
Azzouni undertakes an analysis of our concept of object, and shows
what about that notion is truly due to the world and what about it
is a projection onto the world of our senses and thinking. Location
and individuation conditions are our product: there is no echo of
them in the world. Features, the ways that objects seem to be,
aren't projections. Azzouni shows how the resulting austere
metaphysics tames a host of ancient philosophical problems about
constitution ("Ship of Theseus," "Sorities"), as well as
contemporary puzzles about reductionism. In addition, it's shown
that the same sorts of individuation conditions for properties,
which philosophers use to distinguish between various kinds of odd
abstracta-universals, tropes, and so on, are also projections.
Accompanying our notion of an object is a background logic that
makes cogent ontological debate about anything from Platonic
objects to Bigfoot. Contemporary views about this background logic
("quantifier variance") make ontological debate incoherent. Azzouni
shows how a neutral interpretation of quantifiers and quantifier
domains makes sense of both philosophical and pre-philosophical
ontological debates. Azzouni also shows how the same apparatus
makes sense of our speaking about a host of items-Mickey Mouse,
unicorns, Martians-that nearly all of us deny exist. It's allowed
by what Azzouni shows about the background logic of our ontological
debates, as well as the semantics of the language of those debates
that we can disagree over the existence of things, like unicorns,
without that background logic and semantics forcing ontological
commitments onto speakers that they don't have.
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