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- Thought and World: The Hidden Necessities
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
James F. Ross is a creative and independent thinker in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind. In this concise metaphysical essay, he argues clearly and analytically that meaning, truth, impossibility, natural necessity, and our intelligent perception of nature fit together into a distinctly realist account of thought and world. Ross articulates a moderate realism about repeatable natural structures and our abstractive ability to discern them that poses a challenge to many of the common assumptions and claims of contemporary analytic philosophy. He develops a broadly Aristotelian metaphysics that recognizes the "hidden necessities" of things, which are disclosed through the sciences, which ground his account of real impossibility as a kind of vacuity, and which require the immateriality of the human ability to understand. Those ideas are supported by a novel account of false judgment. Ross aims to offer an analytically and historically respectable alternative to the prevailing positions of many British-American philosophers.
Table of Contents
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- 2 Real Impossibility
- pp. 23-43
- 3 What Might Have Been
- pp. 45-65
- 5 Perception and Abstraction
- pp. 85-113
- 7 Real Natures: Software Everywhere
- pp. 129-148
- 8 Going Wrong with the Master of Falsity
- pp. 149-172
- Works Cited
- pp. 207-215
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268091682
Related ISBN(s)
9780268040567
MARC Record
OCLC
648382515
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No