About this nonfiction
[author: Yablo, Stephen] [october, 2010] by Stephen Yablo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
__Things__ is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo on metaphysics. He examines a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, he argues: there is nothing at issue in them. Several of the papers explore the metaontology of abstract objects, and more generally of objects that are 'preconceived', their principal features being settled already by their job-descriptions. He rejects standard forms of fictionalism, opting ultimately for a view that puts presupposition in the role normally played by pretense. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Yablo
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199266487
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Language Learning