Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two false friends of an ontology of familiar objects
- 2 Conventionalism as ontological relativism
- 3 Realism about material objects: persistence, persistence conditions, and natural kinds
- 4 Ontological preference for the temporally small
- 5 Ontological preference for microphysical causes
- 6 Ontological preference for the spatially small
- 7 A third false friend of familiar objects: universal mereological composition
- 8 Concluding Hegelian postscript
- Appendix: “Mutually interfering” dimensions of difference
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two false friends of an ontology of familiar objects
- 2 Conventionalism as ontological relativism
- 3 Realism about material objects: persistence, persistence conditions, and natural kinds
- 4 Ontological preference for the temporally small
- 5 Ontological preference for microphysical causes
- 6 Ontological preference for the spatially small
- 7 A third false friend of familiar objects: universal mereological composition
- 8 Concluding Hegelian postscript
- Appendix: “Mutually interfering” dimensions of difference
- References
- Index
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- Familiar Objects and their Shadows , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011