Structure of Objects

Name: Structure of Objects
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ISBN: 9780191538674

ISBN-10: 0191538671

ISBN-13: 9780191538674

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Authors: Kathrin Koslicki

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Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse. She focuses particularly on the question of how the parts of such objects are related to the wholes which they compose. Many philosophers today find themselves in the grip of an exceedingly deflationary conception of what it means to be an object. According to this conception, any plurality of objects, no matter how disparate or gerrymandered, itself composes an object, even if the objects in question fail to exhibit interesting similarities, internal unity, cohesion, or causl interaction amongst each other. This…

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List price: $121.50
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Kathrin Koslicki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her interests are metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle.