Material Objects
Edited by Noel Saenz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Summary | Material objects (basketballs, planets, buildings, tables, chairs, electrons, organisms, etc.) have proved philosophically fascinating. Though they might, at first, appear to be those kinds of objects that pose the least amount of philosophical trouble, puzzles and questions concerning their nature have proved just as interesting, and intractable, as puzzles and questions over abstract and non-existent objects. In this section, papers dealing with questions having to do with their existence, persistence, mereology, location, constitution, origin, modal features, mind-independence, grounding status, causal role, place in a quantum world and perceptibility can be found. |
Key works | For some key works on the existence, mereology, and constitution of material objects, see van Inwagen 1990, Merricks 2001, Rea 1997, Thomasson 2007 and Koslicki 2008. For some key works on the persistence, location, and modal features of material objects, see Heller 1990, Sider 2001 and Hawley 2001. |
Introductions | For a nice introduction on the philosophical issues surrounding ordinary material objects, see Korman 2011. |
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Material Constitution (304)
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