Vague Objects and Vague Identity

Vague Objects and Vague Identity

New Essays on Ontic Vagueness

Akiba, Ken; Abasnezhad, Ali

Springer

09/2016

359

Mole

Inglês

9789402401059

15 a 20 dias

onticism is also compared with other, competing theories of vagueness such as semanticism, the view that vagueness exists only in our linguistic representation of the world.Gareth Evans's influential paper of 1978, "Can There Be Vague Objects?" gave a simple but cogent argument against the coherence of ontic vagueness.
Preface; Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad.- Introduction; Ken Akiba.- Part 1. Mereological Vagueness.- Mereological indeterminacy: metaphysical but not fundamental; Thomas Sattig.- A linguistic account of mereological vagueness; Maureen Donnelly.- Part 2. Varieties of Ontic Vagueness.- Vague objects in quantum mechanics?; George Darby.- Vague persons; Kristie Miller.- Indiscriminable but not identical looks: non-vague phenomenal predicates and phenomenal properties; Elisa Paganini.- Attitudes, supervaluations and vagueness in the world; Angel Pinillos.- Part 3. Formal Issues.- Boolean-valued sets as vague sets; Ken Akiba.- One bald man... two bald men... three bald men, aahh aahh aahh aahh aaaahhhh!; Nicholas J. J. Smith.- Vagueness and abstraction; Stewart Shapiro.- Part 4. Ontic Supervaluationism.- Vagueness in the world: a supervaluationist approach; Ali Abasnezhad and Davood Hosseini.- What could vague objects possibly be?; Dan Lopez de Sa.- Part 5. Vague Identity.- Some comments on Evans's proof; Brian Garrett.- Vague existence implies vague identity ; David B. Hershenov.- Castles built on clouds: vague identity and vague objects; Benjamin L. Curtis and Harold W. Noonan.- Evans tolerated; Elia Zardini.
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