The Metaphysics of Everyday Life
Cambridge (2007)
| Abstract | This book presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. The Constitution View construes familiar things as irreducible parts of reality. Although ultimately constituted by physical particles, everyday things are neither identical to nor reducible to the aggregates of particles that constitute them The result is genuine ontological diversity: people, bacteria, donkeys, mountains and microscopes are fundamentally different kinds of things--all constituted by aggregates of particles. This view is supported by discussions of nonreductive causation, vagueness, mereology, ontological novelty, ontological levels and emergence. | |||||||||
| Keywords | ordinary objects constitution commonsense causation metaphysical vagueness mereology 3-dimensionalism time emergence ontological levels | |||||||||
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| Call number | B835.B34 2007 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780521880497 | |||||||||
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