How to be an uncompromising revisionary ontologist
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02196-8
Abstract: Revisionary ontologies seem to go against our common sense convictions about which material objects exist. These views face the so-called Problem of Reasonableness: they have to explain why reasonable people don’t seem to accept the… read more here.
Keywords: uncompromising revisionary; ontology; material objects; revisionary ontologist ... See more keywords
Maintaining the self: meanings of material objects after a residential transition later in life
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DOI: 10.1080/03601277.2019.1601832
Abstract: ABSTRACT Introduction: Moving house later in life can be a major transition and valued material objects may be important to this process. The present study aimed to develop an explanatory model for the meanings of… read more here.
Keywords: material objects; identity; residential transition; later life ... See more keywords
“A Part of Who I Am”: Material Objects as “Plot Devices” in the Formation of Religious Selves
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DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12318
Abstract: What role do material objects play in the formation of religious subjects? Drawing from an ethnographic investigation of the evolving relationships between a group of Eastern Orthodox converts and their religious icons, this article develops… read more here.
Keywords: plot devices; part; formation religious; material objects ... See more keywords
Material Objects and Their Parts
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DOI: 10.1515/mp-2017-0011
Abstract: Abstract Commonsense appears committed to enduring macroscopic material objects that exclude each other from their precise location at all times. I elaborate a specific version of the commonsense commitment and consider its merits in connection… read more here.
Keywords: material objects; objects parts; partition; material ... See more keywords