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Vague Objects and Vague Identity [electronic resource] : New Essays on Ontic Vagueness / edited by Ken Akiba, Ali Abasnezhad.
Contributor(s): Akiba, Ken [edt]
| Abasnezhad, Ali [edt].
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TextSeries: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 33. Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2014Description: 1 online resource (X, 359 p. 28 ill.).ISBN: 9789400779785.Subject(s): Philosophy | Logic | Metaphysics | OntologyOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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; Ángel 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 López 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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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; Ángel 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 López 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.