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The Metaphysics of Everyday Life

Lynne Rudder Baker presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. In contrast to leading metaphysical views that take everyday things to be either non-existent or reducible to micro-objects, the Constitution View construes familiar things as irreducible parts of reality. Although they are ultimately constituted by microphysical particles, everyday objects are neither identical to, nor reducible to, the aggregates of microphysical particles that constitute them. The result is genuine ontological diversity: people, bacteria, donkeys, mountains and microscopes are fundamentally different kinds of things - all constituted by, but not identical to, aggregates of particles. Baker supports her account with discussions of non-reductive causation, vagueness, mereology, artifacts, three-dimensionalism, ontological novelty, ontological levels and emergence. The upshot is a unified ontological theory of the entire material world that irreducibly contains people, as well as non-human living things and inanimate objects.

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Title of ebook: The Metaphysics of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780511353147
parent-ISBN: 9780521880497
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1193 kb
Pages: 272
Published: 10-2007
Released online for download: 10-31-2007
Author of eBook: Baker,Lynne Rudder

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