Familiar Objects and their Shadows

ISBN: 9781107665781 出版年：2011 页码：224 Crawford L Elder Cambridge University Press

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 Reference.