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The Language and Reality of Time

By: Thomas Sattig

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The Language and Reality of Time

By: Thomas Sattig

Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about theworld.The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this pictureis preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics ofpredication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.

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0199279527

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The Double Lives of Objects

An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World

By: Thomas Sattig

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The Double Lives of Objects

An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World

By: Thomas Sattig

Thomas Sattig develops a novel philosophical picture of ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and trees. He carves a middle way between classical mereology and Aristotelian hylomorphism, and argues that objects lead double lives. They are compounds of matter and form, and each object's matter and form have different qualitative profiles.

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0199683018

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The Double Lives of Objects

An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World

By: Thomas Sattig

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An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World

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The Language and Reality of Time

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Material Objects

By: Thomas Sattig

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Material Objects

By: Thomas Sattig

This Element is a survey of central topics in the metaphysics of material objects. The topics are grouped into four problem spaces. The first concerns how an object's parts are related to the object's existence and to the object's nature, or essence. The second concerns how an object persists through time, how an object is located in spacetime, and how an object changes. The third concerns paradoxes about objects, including paradoxes of coincidence, paradoxes of fission, and the problem of the many. The fourth concerns views with radical consequences regarding the existence of composite material objects, including mereological nihilism, ontological anti-realism, and deflationism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009022334

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Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics

By: Thomas Hofweber

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Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics

By: Thomas Hofweber

Many significant problems in metaphysics are tied to ontological questions, but ontology and its relation to larger questions in metaphysics give rise to a series of puzzles that suggest that we don't fully understand what ontology is supposed to do, nor what ambitions metaphysics can have for finding out about what the world is like. Thomas Hofweber aims to solve these puzzles about ontology and consequently to make progress on four central metaphysical problems: the philosophy of arithmetic, the metaphysics of ordinary objects, the problem of universals, and the question whether reality is independent of us. Crucial parts of the proposed solution include considerations about quantification and its relationship to ontology, the place of reference in natural languages, the possibility of ineffable facts, the extent of empirical evidence in metaphysics, and whether metaphysics can properly be esoteric. Overall, Hofweber defends a rationalist account of arithmetic, an empiricist picture in the philosophy of ordinary objects, a restricted from of nominalism, and realism about reality, understood as all there is, but idealism about reality, understood as all that is the case. He defends metaphysics as having some questions of fact that are distinctly its own, with a limited form of autonomy from other parts of inquiry, but rejects several metaphysical projects and approaches as being based on a mistake.

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Oxford University Press

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0198769830

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Mental Causation

A Counterfactual Theory

By: Thomas Kroedel

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Mental Causation

A Counterfactual Theory

By: Thomas Kroedel

Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.

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1108487149

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Branching Space-Times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

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Branching Space-Times

Theory and Applications

By: Nuel Belnap,Thomas Müller,Tomasz Placek

This book develops a rigorous theory of indeterminism as a local and modal concept. Its crucial insight is that our world contains events or processes with alternative, really possible outcomes. The theory aims at clarifying what this assumption involves, and it does it in two ways. First, it provides a mathematically rigorous framework for local and modal indeterminism. Second, we support that theory by spelling out the philosophically relevant consequences of this formulation and by showing its fruitful applications in metaphysics. To this end, we offer a formal analysis of modal correlations and of causation, which is applicable in indeterministic and non-local contexts as well. We also propose a rigorous theory of objective single-case probabilities, intended to represent degrees of possibility. In a third step, we link our theory to current physics, investigating how local and modal indeterminism relates to issues in the foundations of physics, in particular, quantum non-locality and spatio-temporal relativity. The book also ventures into the philosophy of time, showing how the theory's resources can be used to explicate the dynamic concept of the past, present, and future based on local indeterminism"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190884312

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Hollywood in Berlin

American Cinema and Weimar Germany

By: Thomas J. Saunders

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Hollywood in Berlin

American Cinema and Weimar Germany

By: Thomas J. Saunders

The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. The invasion of Germany by American films, which began in 1921 with overlapping waves of sensationalist serials, slapstick shorts, society pictures, and historical epics, initiated a decade of cultural collision and accommodation. On the one hand it fueled an impassioned debate about the properties of cinema and the specter of wholesale Americanization. On the other hand it spawned unprecedented levels of cooperation and exchange. In Berlin, American motion pictures not only entertained all social classes and film tastes but also served as a vehicle for American values and a source of sharp economic competition. Hollywood in Berlin correlates the changing forms of Hollywood's contributions to Weimar culture and the discourses that framed and interpreted them, restoring historical contours to a leading aspect of cultural interchange in this century. At the same time, the book successfully embeds Weimar cinema in its contemporary international setting.

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Univ of California Press

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0520914163

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Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

By: Thomas Hofweber

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Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

By: Thomas Hofweber

Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book defends a form of idealism which holds that our human minds constrain, but do not construct, reality as the totality of facts. Reality as the totality of facts is thus not independent of our minds, and our minds play a metaphysically special role in all of reality. But reality as the totality of things is taken to be completely independent of us. Hofweber's proposed form of conceptual idealism is formulated via the notion of a harmony between our minds and reality. This harmony is defended through considerations in the philosophy of language. How can one possibly defend a metaphysical thesis like idealism from considerations about our own representation? A key step in the book's argument is to consider a special class of concepts--inescapable concepts--which we cannot rationally replace with different ones. This leads to a new approach for making progress in metaphysics--immanent metaphysics--which is broadly neo-Kantian in spirit.

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0192556754

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List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

By: Thomas S. Allen

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List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

By: Thomas S. Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752522070

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Book's by Thomas Sattig

The Language and Reality of Time

The Language and Reality of Time

The Double Lives of Objects

The Double Lives of Objects

The Double Lives of Objects

The Double Lives of Objects

The Language and Reality of Time

The Language and Reality of Time

Material Objects

Material Objects

Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics

Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics

Mental Causation

Mental Causation

Branching Space-Times

Branching Space-Times

Hollywood in Berlin

Hollywood in Berlin

Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

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