From an ontological point of view /
"Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural properties best regarded as...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Ontology
- Levels of reality
- Predicates and properties
- Difficulties for the levels conception
- Abandoning the levels conception: first steps
- Philosophical analysis
- Truth making
- Powers
- Dispositional and categorical properties
- Properties as pure powers
- The identity theory
- Universals
- Modes
- Imperfect similarity
- Objects
- Substantial identity
- Applications
- Colour
- Intentionality
- Conscious experience
- Zombies.