Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139010023
1139010026
9781139007870
1139007874
9780511760129
0511760124
9781107003231
1107003237
1139012738
9781139012737
1283017199
9781283017190
9786613017192
6613017191
1139009494
9781139009492
1139008978
9781139008976
1139006762
9781139006767
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "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"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Elder, Crawford L., 1949- Familiar Objects and their Shadows. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011 9781107003231
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| Standard no.: | 9786613017192
40019163863
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