Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons by Jiri Benovsky
This book defends a brand of non-exceptionalist eliminativism. Benovsky takes one by one all types of allegedly existing objects, including living beings and persons, and shows that from the metaphysical point of view we are much better off without them.-
The Ontology of Music Groups
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Pure Form in Matter
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The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities
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The Ontology of Relations
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Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics
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Thisness Presentism
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Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar
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Fundamental Causation
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Freedom of the Will
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Concrete Particulars
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Powers, Parts and Wholes
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Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
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Relational Passage of Time
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A Case for Necessitarianism
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Philosophy of Time and Perceptual Experience
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The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
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Language and World
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A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
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Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities
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Properties, Powers and Structures
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Nominalism about Properties
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The Puzzle of Existence
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Ground and Fundamentality in Plato and Aristotle
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The Future of the Philosophy of Time
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Metametaphysics and the Sciences
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation
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E.J. Lowe and Ontology
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The Metaphysics of Propositions
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About Haecceity
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Inductive Metaphysics
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The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe
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A Dynamic Theory of Hylomorphism
"Benovsky deserves praise for the extent of his ambitions, the scope of this work, and his philosophical boldnessHe is unafraid to do very sweeping aprioristic/armchair metaphysics, and unafraid to head in unfashionable and extremely rarefied directions. I think we need more of such big picture work in analytic philosophy." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Having been struck by Descartes' evil demon thought-experiment, Jiri Benovsky began to study metaphysics to try to find a proof that the world really exists. He did not find that proof, but at least he found a job at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he can not only go in the mountains but also spend his days thinking about things like existence, reality, personal identity, possible worlds, material objects, and time. He is the author of several books, mainly in the fields of metaphysics and aesthetics, including Meta-metaphysics: On metaphysical equivalence, primitiveness, and theory choice (2016) and Persistence through time, and across possible worlds (2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367000219 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367000210 |
| Title | Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons |
| Author | Jiri Benovsky |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Metaphysics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2018-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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