Objects

Nothing out of the Ordinary

Bibliographic Data

ID23399443
AuthorsDaniel Z Korman (0000-0002-6755-4951, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages256
Publication date2015-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueObjects (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732532.001.0001
OpenAlexW4233899151
Open LibraryOL27708509M
ISBN9780198732532
LanguageEN
Citations received61

"One of the central questions of material-object metaphysics is which highly visible objects there are right before our eyes. Daniel Z. Korman defends a conservative view, according to which our ordinary, natural judgments about which objects there are are more or less correct. He begins with an overview of the arguments that have led people away from the conservative view, into revisionary views according to which there are far more objects than we ordinarily take there to be (permissivism) or far fewer (eliminativism). Korman criticizes a variety of compatibilist strategies, according to which these revisionary views are actually compatible with our ordinary beliefs, and responds to debunking arguments, according to which these beliefs are the products of arbitrary biological and cultural influences.0He goes on to respond to objections that the conservative's verdicts about which objects that are and aren't are objectionably arbitrary, and to the argument from vagueness, which purports to show that the sort of restriction that conservatives want to impose on which composites there are is bound to give rise to vagueness about what exists, something that is ruled out by widely accepted theories of vagueness. Finally, Korman responds to the overdetermination argument, the argument from material constitution, and the problem of the many, all of which are meant to motivate eliminativism by showing that accepting ordinary objects commits one to one or another absurdity."

Absurdity · Argument (complex analysis) · Constitution · Eliminative materialism · Epistemology · Falsity · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Natural (archaeology) · Political science · Solipsism · Vagueness · History · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Object (Philosophy) · Ontology

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