Real Natures and Familiar Objects

Klappentext Elder begins by defending realism about essentialness (arguing that nature's objects have essential properties whose status as essential is mind-independent). He then defends this view of familiar objects against causal exclusion arguments and worries about vagueness. Finally, he argues that many of the objects in which common sense believes really exist, including artifacts and biological devices shaped by natural selection, and that we too exist, as products of natural selection. Zusammenfassung Defending the ontology of common sense.

About the author

Crawford L. Elder is Head of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Product details

• Authors: Crawford L Elder, Crawford L. Elder
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2004
• EAN: 9780262050753
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05075-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: A Bradford Book; Bradford Books; Real Natures and Familiar Objects; The MIT Press; Mit Press; A Bradford Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works