Quantifier variance and realism
Subtitle: essays in metaontology
By: Eli Hirsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780199732111
Description: Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time. This volume collects Hirsch's essays from the last decade (with the exception of one article from 1978) on ontology and metametaphysics which are very much tied to these debates.
Table of contents: title: A sense of unity; title: Basic objects : a reply to Xu; title: Objectivity without objects; title: The vagueness of identity; title: Quantifier variance and realism; title: Against revisionary ontology; title: Comments on Theodore Sider's four dimensionalism; title: Sosa's existential relativism; title: Physical-object ontology, verbal disputes, and common sense; title: Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance; title: Language, ontology, and structure; title: Ontology and alternative languages.