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Full Description
This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology. Focusing on non-standard objects, it offers original answers to classic problems in metaphysics, such as individuation, reference, existence and non-existence. The chosen ontological fields are, for this purpose, ontologies that essentially involve human social practices such as intentional objects, fictions, mental illnesses or social entities. Even though the papers can be read independently, readers will discover a number of original intersections that provide fresh points of entry to contemporary metaphysical issues. By dealing with entities that are not so frequently addressed in related works, the book also contributes to broaden their perspective on ontology. Both scholars and students will find it particularly useful to have a survey about non-standard abstract entities that can provide new topics for their research.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Fernando Martínez-Manrique and M. J. García-Encinas).- Chapter 2. Unification Principles for Biochemical Kinds (Francesca Bellazzi & Tuomas Tahko).- Chapter 3. Artifact-Functions: A Capacity-Based Approach (Kathrin Koslicki & Olivier Massin).- Chapter 4. Fictional Entities Are Social Entities: How Public Narratives Make Fiction Real (Francesco Consiglio).- Chapter 5. Regulative Dispositionalism: Toward a Metaphysics of Mental Disorder (Víctor Fernández Castro).- Chapter 6. Psychological Essentialism and Natural Kinds (Fernando Martínez-Manrique).- Chapter 7. On Social Entities (Stephen Mumford).- Chapter 8. Fictional Entities as Social Objects (Enrique Aranda).- Chapter 9. Notional Objects (Juan José Acero).- Chapter 10. Intentional Objects Are Not Objects (Mirco Sambrotta).- Chapter 11. Impossible Objects and Other Anomalies (Philip Atkins).- Chapter 12. Non-existence (M. J. García-Encinas).- Chapter 13. Is there a Fact of the Matter in the Debate between Structuralism and Factualism? (Otávio Bueno).- Index.
