Vague Objects and Vague Identity New Essays on Ontic Vagueness /
This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness. It seeks to answer core questions pertaining to onticism, the view that vagueness exists in the world itself. The questions to be addressed include whether vague objects must have v...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Σειρά: | Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface; Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad
- Introduction; Ken Akiba
- Part 1. Mereological Vagueness
- Mereological indeterminacy: metaphysical but not fundamental; Thomas Sattig
- A linguistic account of mereological vagueness; Maureen Donnelly
- Part 2. Varieties of Ontic Vagueness
- Vague objects in quantum mechanics?; George Darby
- Vague persons; Kristie Miller
- Indiscriminable but not identical looks: non-vague phenomenal predicates and phenomenal properties; Elisa Paganini
- Attitudes, supervaluations and vagueness in the world; Ángel Pinillos
- Part 3. Formal Issues
- Boolean-valued sets as vague sets; Ken Akiba
- One bald man.. two bald men.. three bald men, aahh aahh aahh aahh aaaahhhh!; Nicholas J. J. Smith
- Vagueness and abstraction; Stewart Shapiro
- Part 4. Ontic Supervaluationism
- Vagueness in the world: a supervaluationist approach; Ali Abasnezhad and Davood Hosseini
- What could vague objects possibly be?; Dan López de Sa
- Part 5. Vague Identity
- Some comments on Evans’s proof; Brian Garrett
- Vague existence implies vague identity; David B. Hershenov
- Castles built on clouds: vague identity and vague objects; Benjamin L. Curtis and Harold W. Noonan
- Evans tolerated; Elia Zardini.
