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Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. They appear to have boundaries in space and time, for example, and they appear to move independently of a background of other objects or a landscape. In Ontology Without Boundaries Jody Azzouni undertakes an analysis of our concept of object, and shows what about that notion is truly due to the world and what about it is a projection onto the world of our senses and thinking. Location and individuation conditions are our product: there is no echo of them in the world. Features, the ways that objects seem to be, aren''t projections. Azzouni shows how the resulting austere metaphysics tames a host of ancient philosophical problems about constitution (Ship of Theseus, Sorities), as well as contemporary puzzles about reductionism. In addition, it''s shown that the same sorts of individuation conditions for properties, which philosophers use to dis

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      Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
      Published 10/25/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780190078737
      978-0190078737
      ISBN-10 0190078731
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      Cognition and cognitive psychology Philosophy: logic Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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      Book Synopsis
      Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. They appear to have boundaries in space and time, for example, and they appear to move independently of a background of other objects or a landscape. In Ontology Without Boundaries Jody Azzouni undertakes an analysis of our concept of object, and shows what about that notion is truly due to the world and what about it is a projection onto the world of our senses and thinking. Location and individuation conditions are our product: there is no echo of them in the world. Features, the ways that objects seem to be, aren''t projections. Azzouni shows how the resulting austere metaphysics tames a host of ancient philosophical problems about constitution (Ship of Theseus, Sorities), as well as contemporary puzzles about reductionism. In addition, it''s shown that the same sorts of individuation conditions for properties, which philosophers use to dis

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