Could there have been nothing?: against metaphysical nihilism
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
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2010
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| Beschreibung: | "Could there have been nothing? is the first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism - the claim that there could have been no concrete objects. It critically analyses the debate around nihilism and related questions about the metaphysics of possible worlds, concrete objects and ontological dependence"-- Provided by publisher. Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 171 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780230573635 |
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CONTENTS
L I ST OF DIAGRAMS IX
PREFACE X
1 COULD THERE HAVE BEEN NOTHING? 1
1.1 COULD THERE HAVE BEEN NOTHING? - ONE QUESTION, THREE ANSWERS 3
1.2 POSSIBLE WORLDS 4
1.3 COULD THINGS HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT? 5
1.4 NIHILISM, ANTI-NIHILISM AND PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATIONS 6
1.5 THE STRUCTURE OF THE DISCUSSION 7
1.6 THE NATURE OF METAPHYSICS AND THE ROLE OF INTUITION 9
1.7 A NOTE ON SOME TECHNICAL TERMS 10
2 METAPHYSICAL NIHILISM AND THE SUBTRACTION ARGUMENT 11
2.1 PREMISE (A1) 12
2.1.1 UNIT SETS 14
2.1.2 PARTS OF CONCRETE OBJECTS 16
2.2 RODRIGUEZ-PEREYRA S SUBTRACTION ARGUMENT* 17
2.3 PREMISE (A2) 22
2.4 PREMISE (A3) AND THE OTHER SUBTRACTION PREMISES 24
3 POSSIBLE WORLDS 26
3.1 METAPHYSICAL NIHILISM, THE SUBTRACTION ARGUMENT AND WORLDS 26
3.2 THREE VIEWS OF WORLDS AND OBJECTS 27
3.3 WHAT ABOUT SETS? 38
3.4 ANOTHER WAY OUT? 44
3.5 THE PROBLEM WITH MEMBERLESSNESS 47
3.6 MODAL FICTIONALISM 51
3.7 CONCLUSION 54
4 CONCRETENESS 57
4.1 WHAT IS NIHILISM? 57
4.2 CRITERIA OF CONCRETENESS 59
4.3 THE SENSE-PERCEPTION ACCOUNT 61
VII
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VIII C O N T E N TS
4.4 THE CAUSAL ACCOUNT 63
4.5 THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL ACCOUNT 65
4.6 THE IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES 71
4.7 NATURAL BOUNDARIES 75
4.8 OTHER ACCOUNTS OF CONCRETENESS 81
4.9 THE TEMPORAL CRITERION OF CONCRETENESS AND POSSIBLE WORLD THEORIES
82
4.10 THE MOTIVATION FOR NIHILISM 83
5 CONCRETA, DEPENDENCE AND ANTI-NIHILISM 86
5.1 MORE SUBTRACTION ARGUMENTS 87
5.2 PREMISE (AL) 87
5.3 PREMISE (A2) AND ANTI-NIHILISM 1 88
5.3.1 THE MODAL ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS 92
5.4 PREMISE (A3) AND ANTI-NIHILISM 2 94
5.4.1 DO ABSTRACT OBJECTS EXIST IN EVERY POSSIBLE WORLD? 96
5.4.2 ERSATZISM AND ANTI-ERSATZISM 98
5.4.3 THE CHALLENGE FROM ABSOLUTE NIHILISM 99
5.4.4 DO ABSTRACT OBJECTS DEPEND ON CONCRETE OBJECTS? 100
5.4.5 UNIVERSALS AND THE EMPTY SET 106
5.4.6 DEPENDENCE 111
5.5 ONE MORE CHALLENGE TO NIHILISM 113
5.6 CONCLUSION 115
6 THE METAPHYSICS OF SUBTRACTION 117
6.1 SUBTRACTABILITY 117
6.2 THE SUBTRACTION PREMISE 119
6.3 GENERAL STRATEGIES FOR DEFENDING METAPHYSICAL NIHILISM 123
6.4 THE DOWNWARD INDUCTION ARGUMENT FOR METAPHYSICAL NIHILISM 125
6.5 DOWNWARD INDUCTION IN THE SUBTRACTION ARGUMENT 129
6.6 OBJECTIONS AND REPLIES 132
6.7 CONCLUSION 135
7 THE TROUBLE WITH METAPHYSICAL NIHILISM 137
NOTES 143
BIBLIOGRAPHY 161
INDEX 169
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