Vague Objects and Vague Identity: New Essays on Ontic Vagueness - Softcover
Book 22 of 41: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Synopsis
Preface; Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad.- Introduction; Ken Akiba.- Part 1. Mereological Vagueness.- Mereological indeterminacy: metaphysical but not fundamental; Thomas Sattig.- A linguistic account of mereological vagueness; Maureen Donnelly.- Part 2. Varieties of Ontic Vagueness.- Vague objects in quantum mechanics?; George Darby.- Vague persons; Kristie Miller.- Indiscriminable but not identical looks: non-vague phenomenal predicates and phenomenal properties; Elisa Paganini.- Attitudes, supervaluations and vagueness in the world; Ángel Pinillos.- Part 3. Formal Issues.- Boolean-valued sets as vague sets; Ken Akiba.- One bald man... two bald men... three bald men, aahh aahh aahh aahh aaaahhhh!; Nicholas J. J. Smith.- Vagueness and abstraction; Stewart Shapiro.- Part 4. Ontic Supervaluationism.- Vagueness in the world: a supervaluationist approach; Ali Abasnezhad and Davood Hosseini.- What could vague objects possibly be?; Dan López de Sa.- Part 5. Vague Identity.- Some comments on Evans's proof; Brian Garrett.- Vague existence implies vague identity ; David B. Hershenov.- Castles built on clouds: vague identity and vague objects; Benjamin L. Curtis and Harold W. Noonan.- Evans tolerated; Elia Zardini.
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