Abstract objects : for and against /: for and against. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Abstract objects : for and against /: for and against. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Abstract objects : for and against
- Further Information:
- Note: José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal, editors.
- Other Names:
- Falguera, José L
Martinez Vidal, Concha - Contents:
- Preface (José L. Falguera and Concha Martinez-Vidal) -- 1. Introduction: Recent disputes on the existence on abstract objects: an overview (Matteo Plebani) -- Part I. Enhanced Indispensability and Type Theories. 2. Purely Physical Explananda: Bistability in Perception (Sam Baron) -- 3. Description, Explanation and Ontological Commitment (Concha Martinez-Vidal and Navia Rivas-de-Castro) -- 4. Typed Object Theory (Edward Zalta) -- Part II. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Mathematics. 5. Contingent Abstract Objects (Otávio Bueno) -- 6. Is There a Fact of the Matter about the Existence of Abstract Objects? (Mary Leng) -- Part III. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Empirical Sciences. 7. An ensemble-plus-standing-for account of scientific representation: no need for (unnecessary) abstract objects (José A. Diez) -- 8. The Nature of Scientific Models: Abstract Artifacts that Determine Fictional Systems (Xavier de Donato-Rodriguez and José L. Falguera) -- 9. The Scope and Power of Abstraction in Science (Stathis Psillos) -- 10. Models and Denotation (Fiora Salis, Roman Frigg, and James Nguyen) -- Part IV. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Language. 11. Fictional Co-identification: The Explanatory Lightweight of Realism (Manuel Garcia-Carpintero) -- 12. What is the difference between Hamlet and me? Fiction, metaphysics and the nature of our moral thinking (Sofía Miguens) -- 13. Abstract Objects and the Core-Periphery Distinction in the Ontological andPreface (José L. Falguera and Concha Martinez-Vidal) -- 1. Introduction: Recent disputes on the existence on abstract objects: an overview (Matteo Plebani) -- Part I. Enhanced Indispensability and Type Theories. 2. Purely Physical Explananda: Bistability in Perception (Sam Baron) -- 3. Description, Explanation and Ontological Commitment (Concha Martinez-Vidal and Navia Rivas-de-Castro) -- 4. Typed Object Theory (Edward Zalta) -- Part II. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Mathematics. 5. Contingent Abstract Objects (Otávio Bueno) -- 6. Is There a Fact of the Matter about the Existence of Abstract Objects? (Mary Leng) -- Part III. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Empirical Sciences. 7. An ensemble-plus-standing-for account of scientific representation: no need for (unnecessary) abstract objects (José A. Diez) -- 8. The Nature of Scientific Models: Abstract Artifacts that Determine Fictional Systems (Xavier de Donato-Rodriguez and José L. Falguera) -- 9. The Scope and Power of Abstraction in Science (Stathis Psillos) -- 10. Models and Denotation (Fiora Salis, Roman Frigg, and James Nguyen) -- Part IV. Fictionalism or Realism in Philosophy of Language. 11. Fictional Co-identification: The Explanatory Lightweight of Realism (Manuel Garcia-Carpintero) -- 12. What is the difference between Hamlet and me? Fiction, metaphysics and the nature of our moral thinking (Sofía Miguens) -- 13. Abstract Objects and the Core-Periphery Distinction in the Ontological and Conceptual Domain of Natural Language (Friederike Moltmann) -- 14. How to Vindicate (Fictional) Creationism (Alberto Voltolini) -- Part V. Fictionalism or Realism in Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Arts. 15. Moral Folkism and the Deflation of (Lots of) Normative and Metaethics (Mark Balaguer) -- 16. Methodology in the ontology of artworks: exploring hermeneutic fictionalism (Elisa Caldarolo) -- 17. A Realist-Friendly Argument for Moral Fictionalism: Perhaps Youd Better Not Believe It (Christoph er Jay). … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 355 pages), (illustrations)
- Subjects:
- 121
Abstraction
The arts: general issues
Religious groups: social & cultural aspects
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Cultural studies
Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism
Art -- General
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion
Philosophy -- Metaphysics
Social Science -- General
Philosophy -- Movements -- Analytic
Abstraction
Electronic books
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030382421
3030382427 - Related ISBNs:
- 3030382419
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