This Element offers the reader the elements of metaontology by way of an opinionated overview of its central arguments and positions. The first section focuses on whether there are nonexistent objects. The second section focuses on whether ontologic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009618502)
This Element offers the reader the elements of metaontology by way of an opinionated overview of its central arguments and positions. The first section focuses on whether there are nonexistent objects. The second section focuses on whether ontologic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009619202)
This Element explores a methodological reflection on the contribution historical scholarship on Aristotle might make to contemporary metaphysics. It aims to make the relevant exegetical questions accessible to contemporary metaphysicians, and the co...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores a methodological reflection on the contribution historical scholarship on Aristotle might make to contemporary metaphysics. It aims to make the relevant exegetical questions accessible to contemporary metaphysicians, and the co...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009663243)
Social ontology is the study of the nature of the social world. This Element aims to provide an overview of this burgeoning field, and also to map the questions that theories in social ontology address. When we encounter a theory of some social thing...Lasīt vairāk
This Element aims to provide an overview of this burgeoning field, and also to map the questions that theories in social ontology address. It is structured by distinguishing theories of social construction from theories that characterize the products...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009494441)
This Element discusses philosophical issues surrounding color metaphysics, arguing that colors are objective features of our world, independent of our experiences. It challenges, that perceptual variation makes objectivism untenable and that colors...Lasīt vairāk
This Element discusses philosophical issues surrounding color metaphysics, arguing that colors are objective features of our world, independent of our experiences. It challenges, that perceptual variation makes objectivism untenable and that colors...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500951)
This Element discusses the cycles of reduction-emergence debates in sciences. It highlights the importance of compositional models and endogenous metaphysics in these debates, highlighting the Dynamic Cycle. It frames contemporary emergentist positi...Lasīt vairāk
This Element discusses the cycles of reduction-emergence debates in sciences. It highlights the importance of compositional models and endogenous metaphysics in these debates, highlighting the Dynamic Cycle. It frames contemporary emergentist positi...Lasīt vairāk
The metaphysics of gender is a growing area of interest in metaphysics, examining the existence and nature of gender categories like man, woman, or agender person. This Element provides a survey of recent discussions on the topic, highlighting the gr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500388)
What is the metaphysics of gender about? Metaphysics is the study of what there is and what it is like. On this conception, questions in the metaphysics of gender would be about the existence and nature of gender. That is, the metaphysics of gender w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500340)
This Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counter...Lasīt vairāk
This Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counter...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500302)
Are races real? Is race a biological or social category? What role, if any, does race play in scientific explanations? This Cambridge Element addresses these and other core questions in the metaphysics of race. It discusses prominent accounts of race...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores the metaphysics of race, discussing biological racial realism, social constructivism, and racial anti-realism. It discusses the veridity of these concepts, the role of race in scientific explanations, and the virtues and shortco...Lasīt vairāk
How do we know what is possible or impossible, what is inevitable or unattainable, or what would happen under which circumstances? Since modal facts seem distinctively mysterious and difficult to know, the epistemology of modality has historically be...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009462563)
How do we know what is possible or impossible, what is inevitable or unattainable, or what would happen under which circumstances? Since modal facts seem distinctively mysterious and difficult to know, the epistemology of modality has historically be...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500326)
Teleology is about functions, ends, and goals in nature. This Element offers a philosophical examination of these phenomena and aims to reinstate teleology as a core part of the metaphysics of science. It starts with a critical analysis of three theo...Lasīt vairāk
This Element offers a philosophical examination of these phenomena and aims to reinstate teleology as a core part of the metaphysics of science. The Element develops a new theory which grounds many cases of goal-directedness in the metaphysics of pow...Lasīt vairāk
