Amie L. Thomasson

Ontology Made Easy

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Existence questions have been topics for heated debates in metaphysics, but this book argues that they can often be answered easily, by trivial inferences from uncontroversial premises. This 'easy' approach to ontology leads to realism about disputed entities, and to the view that metaphysical disputes about existence questions are misguided.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Forgotten Easy Approach

1. The historical back story

2. The rise of neo-Quineanism

3. The easy approach to ontology: a preliminary sketch

4. The plan of this book

Part I: Developing Easy Ontology

Chapter 1: Whatever Happened to Carnapian Deflationism?

1. Carnap's approach to existence questions

2. Quine and the ascendency of ontology

3. Putnam takes deflationism on an unfortunate turn

4. 'Exists' as a formal notion: a brief history

5. Is Carnap committed to quantifier variance?

6. Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Unbearable Lightness of Existence

1. A core rule of use for 'exists'

2. What are application conditions?

3. Do application conditions for 'K' include that Ks exist?

4. Answering existence questions easily

5. Against substantive criteria of existence

6. Lines of reply

3) Easy Ontology and its Consequences

1. Using trivial inferences to answer existence questions

2. Three forms of easy ontology

3. First result: simple realism

4. Second result: Meta-ontological deflationism

Chapter 4: Other ways of being Suspicious

1. Denying that ontological disputes are genuine disputes

2. Denying that we can know the answers

3. Denying that there are answers to know

4. Understanding hard ontology

Chapter 5: Fictionalism versus Deflationism

1. Motives for fictionalism

2. The fictionalist's case against easy arguments

3. A problem for the fictionalist's analogy

4. How the fictionalist incurs a debt

5. A reply for the fictionalist

6. The deflationary alternative

7. Conclusion

Part II: Defending Easy Ontology

Chapter 6: "Easy arguments give us problematic ontological commitments"

1. Unwanted ontological commitments?

2. Why easy arguments require no magic

3. Do we get the objects we wanted?

4. Conclusion

Chapter 7: "Easy arguments rely on the questionable idea of conceptual truths"

1. Why easy ontology needs conceptual truths

2. Williamson's attack on epistemic analyticity

3. How easy inferences survive

4. Caveats and conclusions

Chapter 8: "Easy arguments rely on principles that keep bad company"

1. The bad company challenge for the easy approach

2. Avoiding bad company

3. The limited impact of bad company objections

Chapter 9: "The conclusions of easy arguments don't answer ontological questions"

1. Hofweber's solution to the puzzle about ontology

2. Focus and ontology

3. Ways to read the quantifier

Chapter 10: "Hard ontological questions can be revived in Ontologese"

1. Existence questions in Ontologese

2. Just more metaphysics?

3. Avoiding the joint-carving quantifier

4. Problematizing the joint-carving quantifier

Conclusion: The Importance of Not Being Earnest

1. The empirical, conceptual, and pragmatic case for deflationism

2. Metaphysics in a new key?

Bibliography

Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Januar 2018

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

360

Autor/Autorin

Amie L. Thomasson

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

494 g

Größe (L/B/H)

210/140/21 mm

ISBN

9780190878665

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Amie L. Thomasson

Amie Thomasson is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She is the author of Ordinary Objects and Fiction and Metaphysics, and co-editor (with David W. Smith) of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. In addition, she has published more than 50 book chapters and articles on topics in metaphysics, metaontology, fiction, philosophy of mind and phenomenology, the philosophy of art, and social ontology.

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