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Familiar Objects and their Shadows (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Elder, Crawford L. (author) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Familiar Objects and their Shadows (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) about?
Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes
Who reads Familiar Objects and their Shadows (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elder, Crawford L. (author)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139006767
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Physics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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