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Stovall, Preston John.

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Chemicals, organisms, and persons: Modal expressivism and a descriptive metaphysics of kinds.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Chemicals, organisms, and persons: Modal expressivism and a descriptive metaphysics of kinds./
作者:	Stovall, Preston John.
面頁冊數:	309 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
標題:	Metaphysics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3735366
ISBN:	9781339241951

Chemicals, organisms, and persons: Modal expressivism and a descriptive metaphysics of kinds.
Stovall, Preston John.

Chemicals, organisms, and persons: Modal expressivism and a descriptive metaphysics of kinds. - 309 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2015.

Sentences like 'atoms of gold have 79 protons' and 'the book is in the library' appear to represent the world in some way. But what role is played by modal sentences like 'necessarily, atoms of gold have 79 protons' and 'it ought to be that the book is in the library'? Two sorts of answers to this question are common in contemporary philosophy, one that interprets modal sentences representationally, and the other interpreting them as expressions of some sort.

ISBN: 9781339241951Subjects--Topical Terms:

517082
Metaphysics.

Chemicals, organisms, and persons: Modal expressivism and a descriptive metaphysics of kinds.
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520 $a Modal expressivism and modal representationalism are often characterized as mutually exclusive, and this can make it seem like modal expressivism undercuts metaphysical inquiry. But in this document I develop a modal expressivism that is compatible with modal metaphysics. I do so by showing how to interpret a variety of object-language modal vocabularies, including terms for ontic modalities ('necessarily' and 'possibly'), normative modalities ('ought' and 'may') and teleological modalities ('in order to' and 'so that'), as devices for giving expression to the metalinguistic rules of inference that govern the representational terms and sentences of that object-language. On this basis I argue for a descriptive metaphysics---understood as a way the world would have to be if the way we reason about it were to be correct---for the very general kinds 'chemical', 'organism', and 'person'. I also argue that a variety of grounding explanations, marked by two-place modal connectives like 'because' and 'for this reason', can be understood to play a role in relating different sentences to one another in a structured inferential space involving no representational commitments beyond those that are implicated by ordinary explanations concerning the sentences on which those phrases operate.
520 $a The result is a view on which talk of organisms and persons as individuals that are, by their natures, creatures of excellence and defect is talk that commits us to nothing more than particular sorts of complexity in the ordinary causal and social relations that make organic and personal activity possible. And so whereas it might seem that metaphysics and modal expressivism are mutually exclusive projects, the modal expressivism I develop underwrites a novel method of metaphysical inquiry.
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