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
Fighting fit: clothing, equipment and material objects as identity formation in women’s boxing
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DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2025.2524024
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper explores the intersections of material culture and gendered identity among women in boxing, linking material objects to lived experience. Based on ethnographic field work in two Midlands based boxing gyms in the… read more here.
Keywords: women boxing; equipment; identity; material objects ... 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