Thomasson on Ontology

Amie L. Thomasson, the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College, has gained international recognition as a leading figure within various areas of philosophy. She has recently been celebrated as one of the most influential living philosophers for her significant contributions to metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, and aesthetics. By engaging critically with her approach to metaphysics, modality, conceptual analysis, and the methodological issues concerning ontological questions about ordinary objects, social entities, and fictional characters, as well as including a chapter from Thomasson herself where she makes explicit the internal connections which run through her body of work, this volume delivers the first thorough discussion of Thomasson's philosophy.

Examines in depth Thomasson's easy approach to ontology Assesses Thomasson's deflationary metaontolgy and contrasts it with other alternatives within metaphysical methodology Features eleven original chapters from a world-class line-up of scholars working primarily in metaphysics and ontology

Auteur
Miguel Garcia-Godinez is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCC, Philosophy. His main research areas are legal philosophy, social ontology, and metaethics.

Texte du rabat

Amie Thomasson is one of the most important systematic philosophers of her generation. This welcome volume offers an excellent overview of her philosophical program by Thomasson herself, as well as detailed discussion of many aspects of her views on ontology by ten leading critics. The collection will be essential reading for students and researchers of Thomasson's work, and of contemporary ontology more broadly.
-Professor Huw Price, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Bonn and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge:
Amie Thomasson is one of our most versatile, original, and interesting philosophers. This wonderfully rich volume illuminates, expands on, responds to, and engages with her work in metaphysics, conceptual engineering, ontology, semantics, metaphilosophy and philosophical methodology.

• *-Professor Herman Cappelen, Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong
  Amie L. Thomasson, the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College, has gained international recognition as a leading figure within various areas of philosophy. She has recently been celebrated as one of the most influential living philosophers for her significant contributions to metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, and aesthetics. By engaging critically with her approach to metaphysics, modality, conceptual analysis, and the methodological issues concerning ontological questions about ordinary objects, social entities, and fictional characters, as well as including a chapter from Thomasson herself where she makes explicit the internal connections which run through her body of work, this volume delivers the first thorough discussion of Thomasson's philosophy.
  Miguel Garcia-Godinez is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCC, Philosophy. His main research areas are legal philosophy, social ontology, and metaethics.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Miguel Garcia-Godinez.- 2. How It All Hangs Together: Amie Thomasson.- 3. Thomasson on Easy Arguments; Thomas Hofweber.- 4. Realism, Deflationism, and Metaphysical Explanation: Naomi Thompson.- 5. Who's Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?: James Miller.- 6. Modal Normativism and Metasemantics: Theodore D. Locke.- 7. Thomasson on Moral Language: Matti Eklund.- 8. Thomasson's Social Ontology: Åsa Burman.- 9. Easy Social Ontology: Miguel Garcia-Godinez.- 10. Artifacts and the Limits of Agentive Authority: Kathrin Koslicki.- 11. Mountains and Their Boundaries: Daniel Z. Korman.- 12. Creationism, Easy Ontology, and Indeterminacy: Dana Goswick