States of affairs / Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.).

Author
Reicher, Maria Elisabeth [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Heusenstamm [Germany] : ontos, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (221 p.)

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Related name
Series
Subseries of
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
Summary note
States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conju
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Reicher, Maria E.
  • Questions about States of Affairs / Armstrong, David M.
  • States of Affairs - the Full Picture / Meixner, Uwe
  • Facts and Connectors / Tegtmeier, Erwin
  • Facts and Things / Hochberg, Herbert
  • Why There Are No States of Affairs / Simons, Peter
  • Are Particulars or States of Affairs Given in Perception? / Textor, Mark
  • Time and Existence: A Critique of "Degree Presentism" / Oaklander, L. Nathan
  • Defending Existentialism? / David, Marian
  • Index
  • Authors
  • Backmatter
Other format(s)
Issued also in print.
ISBN
  • 9783110326024
  • 3110326027
OCLC
  • 851972141
  • 1013956886
  • 853268913
Doi
  • 10.1515/9783110326024
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