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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Preface
How this book is arranged
What this book assumes
What this book leaves unsaid
1 The Basics
Ontology
Abstract versus concrete
Nonsense versus sense
Permissivists
Nominalism
Chapter summary
Further reading
2 Methodology
Metaontology
Theory choice
Virtue 1: Coherence with intuitions
Virtue 2: Explanatory power
Virtue 3: Ideological parsimony
Virtue 4: Ontological parsimony
Weighing up the theories
Chapter summary
Further reading
3 Properties
Properties and Quinean ontological commitment
The problem of universals
What are properties like?
Chapter summary
Further reading
4 Numbers
Ontological reductions
Indispensability arguments for realism
Anti-realist strategies
Meinongianism
Chapter summary
Further reading
5 Possible Worlds
Modal talk and possible worlds talk
Back to ontology
Genuine modal realism
Ersatz modal realism
Modal fictionalism
Chapter summary
Further reading
6 Space
Substantivalism and relationism
Newton’s argument for absolute space
Leibniz’s shift argument
Ontological reductions
Chapter summary
Further reading
7 Time
Realism about entities from other times
Singular propositions
Truthmaking
Special relativity
Chapter summary
Further reading
8 Mereology
A crash course in mereology
Against restricted composition
Mereological nihilism
Neo-Carnapianism
Chapter summary
Further reading
9 Material Constitution
The statue and the lump
The standard account
Perdurantism
Other endurantist theories
Further reading
10 Works of Music
What is a work of music?
Realism about musical works
Anti-realism about musical works
Fundamentality
Further reading
References
Index
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