The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World

by Thomas Sattig

Thomas Sattig develops and defends a novel philosophical picture of ordinary objects, such as persons, tables, trees, and mountains. His theory carves a middle way between the two accounts that have dominated traditional metaphysics of material objects, namely, classical mereology and Aristotelian hylomorphism. It answers metaphysical, semantical, and psychological questions in a unified framework: What is the nature of ordinary objects? How do we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199683018
• ISBN13: 9780199683017
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"