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Familiar Objects and their Shadows

Author : Crawford L. Elder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501127
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Familiar Objects and their Shadows written by Crawford L. Elder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real.

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar

Author : Ross D. Inman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351660055
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar by : Ross D. Inman

Download or read book Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar written by Ross D. Inman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties, laws, causation, and modality in the neo-Aristotelian metaphysics literature, this book is one of the first full-length treatments of wholes and their parts. Another aim of the book is to further develop the newly revived area concerning the question of fundamental mereology, the question of whether wholes are metaphysically prior to their parts or vice versa. Inman develops a fundamental mereology with a grounding-based conception of the structure and unity of substances at its core, what he calls substantial priority, one that distinctively allows for the fundamentality of ordinary, medium-sized composite objects. He offers both empirical and philosophical considerations against the view that the parts of every composite object are metaphysically prior, in particular the view that ascribes ontological pride of place to the smallest microphysical parts of composite objects, which currently dominates debates in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Ultimately, he demonstrates that substantial priority is well-motivated in virtue of its offering a unified solution to a host of metaphysical problems involving material objects.

Objects

Author : Daniel Z. Korman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191046469
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Objects written by Daniel Z. Korman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sorts of material objects are there? Many philosophers opt for surprising answers to this question that seem deeply at odds with how we ordinarily think about the material world. Some embrace radically eliminative views, on which there are far fewer objects than we ordinarily take there to be, while others go in for radically permissive views on which there are legions of extraordinary objects that somehow escape our notice, despite being highly visible and right before our eyes. In this book, Daniel Z. Korman defends our ordinary, intuitive judgments about which objects there are. The book responds to a wide variety of arguments that have driven people away from the intuitive view: arbitrariness arguments, debunking arguments, overdetermination arguments, arguments from vagueness and material constitution, and the problem of the many. It also criticizes attempts to show that permissive and eliminative views are, despite appearances, entirely compatible with our ordinary beliefs and intuitions.

Artefact Kinds

Author : Maarten Franssen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319008013
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Artefact Kinds written by Maarten Franssen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show, questions of identity and classification require other treatments and lead to other answers for artefacts than for natural entities. These answers are of interest to philosophers not only for their clarification of artefacts as a category of things but also for the new light they may shed on these issue with respect to to natural entities. This volume is structured in three parts. The contributions in Part I address basic ontological and metaphysical questions in relation to artefact kinds: How should we conceive of artefact kinds? Are they real kinds? How are identity conditions for artefacts and artefact kinds related? The contributions in Part II address meta-ontological questions: What, exactly, should an ontological account of artefact kinds provide us with? What scope can it aim for? Which ways of approaching the ontology of artefact kinds are there, how promising are they, and how should we assess this? In Part III, the essays offer engineering practice rather than theoretical philosophy as a point of reference. The issues addressed here include: How do engineers classify technical artefacts and on what grounds? What makes specific classes of technical artefacts candidates for ontologically real kinds, and by which criteria?

Familiar Objects and their Shadows

Author : Crawford L. Elder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107665781
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Familiar Objects and their Shadows written by Crawford L. Elder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real.

The Meaning of Something

Author : Fosca Mariani Zini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303109610X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Something written by Fosca Mariani Zini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume investigates the meaning of ‘something’ in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy. In fact, the revival of interest in “something” in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as in contemporary philosophy can easily be accounted for: it affords the possibility for asking the question: what is there? without engaging in predefined speculative assumptions The issue about “something” seems to avoid any naive approach to the question about what there is, so that it is treated in two main contemporary philosophical trends: “material ontology”, which aims at taking “inventory” of what there is, of everything that is; and “formal ontology”, which analyses the structural features of all there is, whatever it is. The volume advances cutting-edge debates on what is the first et the most general item in ontology, that is to say “something”, because the relevant features of the conceptual core of something are: non-nothingness, otherness. Something means that one being is different from others. The relationality belongs to something.: Therefore, the volume advances cutting-edge debates in phenomenology, analytic philosophy, formal and material ontology, traditional metaphysics.

Immortal Souls

Author : Edward Feser
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 386838605X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Immortal Souls written by Edward Feser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortal Souls provides as ambitious and complete a defense of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical anthropology as is currently in print. Among the many topics covered are the reality and unity of the self, the immateriality of the intellect, the freedom of the will, the immortality of the soul, the critique of artificial intelligence, and the refutation of both Cartesian and materialist conceptions of human nature. Along the way, the main rival positions in contemporary philosophy and science are thoroughly engaged with and rebutted. Reviews "Edward Feser's book is a Summa of the nature of the human person: it is, therefore, both a rather long – but brilliant – monograph, and a valuable work for consultation. Each of the human faculties discussed is treated comprehensively, with a broad range of theories considered for and against, and, although Feser's conclusions are firmly Thomistic, one can derive great benefit from his discussions even if one is not a convinced hylomorphist. Every philosopher of mind would benefit from having this book within easy reach." Howard Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Central European University “Feser defends the Aristotelian and Thomistic system, effectively bringing it into dialogue with recent debates and drawing on some of the best of both analytic (Kripke, Searle, BonJour, Fodor) and phenomenological (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus) philosophy. He deftly rebuts objections to Thomism, both ancient and modern. Anyone working today on personal identity, the unity of the self, the semantics of cognition, free will, or qualia will need to engage with the analysis and arguments presented here.” Robert C. Koons, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.

HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers

Author : Constantine Stephanidis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030300331
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, which was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 2019, introduced the additional option of "late-breaking work", which applied both for papers and posters with the corresponding volumes of the proceedings. The 47 late-breaking papers included in this volume were published after the conference has taken place. They were organized in the following topical sections: user experience design and evaluation; information, visualization, and decision making; virtual and augmented reality; learning and games; human and task models in HCI; and design and user experience case studies.

Millikan and Her Critics

Author : Dan Ryder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118328086
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Millikan and Her Critics written by Dan Ryder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions present discussion from some of the most important philosophers in the field today and include replies from Millikan herself. Comprises 13 new essays that critically examine the highly regarded and influential work of Ruth Millikan Covers a wide range of Millikan's most important work, from philosophy of mind and language to philosophy of biology Features contributions by some of the most important and influential philosophers working today Includes original replies to critics by Millikan

The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6

Author : Kathy Charner
Publisher : Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780876591819
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6 written by Kathy Charner and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than six hundred circle time and group activities designed by teachers to use with children three to six years old, each including a suggested age, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions, and features lists of related books, songs, and poems.

Scholastic Metaphysics

Author : Edward Feser
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3868385444
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Scholastic Metaphysics written by Edward Feser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader’s understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader’s understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the organizing theme, and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view, but Scotist and Suarezian positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics

Author : Tom Angier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422632
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics written by Tom Angier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ethical norms relate to human nature? This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume surveys the latest thinking on natural law.

Current Controversies in Metaphysics

Author : Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135007713
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Metaphysics written by Elizabeth Barnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are: Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties? / (1) Meghan Sullivan (2) Kris McDaniel and Steve Steward Are there any worldly states of affairs? / (1) Daniel Nolan (2) Joseph Melia Are there any intermediate states of affairs? / (1) Jessica Wilson (2) Elizabeth Barnes and Ross Cameron Do ordinary objects exist? / (1) Trenton Merricks (2) Helen Beebee Editor Elizabeth Barnes guides readers through these controversies (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction and succinct abstracts of each debate.

Planning for Learning through the Seasons

Author : Rachel Sparks Linfield
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909101990
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Planning for Learning through the Seasons written by Rachel Sparks Linfield and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan for six weeks of learning for each season with this bumper edition, covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS. This bumper edition contains all the material contained in Planning for Learning Through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in one value book. Ideal for helping young children to explore the seasons, whatever the time of year, with this step-by-step guide to planning fun activities that cover a wide range of Early Learning Goals. This title comes with advice on observing and assessing children's learning, as well as how to record evidence of learning. It also includes photocopiable sheets for parents to take and extend the learning at home. A must-have for any early years setting wanting easy to dip into planning all year round.

Planning for Learning through Summer

Author : Rachel Sparks Linfield
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909101818
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Planning for Learning through Summer written by Rachel Sparks Linfield and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of summer. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through six weeks of activities on the theme of summer. Each activity is linked to a specific Early Learning Goal, and the book contains a skills overview so that practitioners can keep track of which areas of learning and development they are promoting. This book also includes a photocopiable page to give to parents with ideas for them to get involved with their children's topic, as well as ideas for bringing the six weeks of learning together. The weekly themes in this book include: detecting summer, summer fruits, summer flowers, sunny week, summer holidays and sports day.

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion

Author : Mark Balaguer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198868367
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion written by Mark Balaguer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions. It also explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism.

Object Recognition in Man, Monkey, and Machine

Author : Michael J. Tarr
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262700702
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Object Recognition in Man, Monkey, and Machine written by Michael J. Tarr and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition. These interconnected essays on three-dimensional visual object recognition present cutting-edge research by some of the most creative neuroscientific, cognitive, and computational scientists in the field. Cassandra Moore and Patrick Cavanagh take a classic demonstration, the perception of "two-tone" images, and turn it into a method for understanding the nature of object representations in terms of surfaces and the interaction between bottom-up and top-down processes. Michael J. Tarr and Isabel Gauthier use computer graphics to study whether viewpoint-dependent recognition mechanisms can generalize between exemplars of perceptually defined classes. Melvyn A. Goodale and G. Keith Humphrey use innovative psychophysical techniques to investigate dissociable aspects of visual and spatial processing in brain-injured subjects. D.I. Perrett, M.W. Oram, and E. Ashbridge combine neurophysiological single-cell data from monkeys with computational analyses for a new way of thinking about the mechanisms that mediate viewpoint-dependent object recognition and mental rotation. Shimon Ullman also addresses possible mechanisms to account for viewpoint-dependent behavior, but from the perspective of machine vision. Finally, Philippe G. Schyns synthesizes work from many areas, to provide a coherent account of how stimulus class and recognition task interact. The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition.