{"title":"Spatial Fictionalism. A Solution to the Grounding Problem","authors":"N. Piras","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114721036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Semantics of Artifactual Words","authors":"M. Santambrogio","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"271 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116150817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artifacts and Fiat Objects: Two Families Apart?","authors":"Massimiliano Carrara","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114444447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Acts, Externalism and Fiat Objects: An Ockhamist Solution","authors":"Riccardo Fedriga","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114807898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Conceptualist View in the Metaphysics of Species","authors":"C. Florio, Aldo Frigerio","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The species concept is one of the central concepts in biological science. Although modern systematics speculates about the existence of a complex hierarchy of nested taxa, biological species are considered particularly important for the active role they play in evolution. However, neither theoretical biologists nor philosophers of biology have come to an agreement about what a species is. In this chapter, we address two questions pertaining to biological species: (1) are they individuals or universals? and (2) are they bona fide or fiat entities? In section The Species-as-Individuals View, we illustrate the reasons that have led many scholars to support the view that species are individuals. In the next two sections, we show that the relational concepts of species – on which the species-as-individuals view is based – provide neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for species membership. This seriously undermines the species-as-individuals view. In the section A Conceptualist Model for the Metaphysics of Species, we advance the proposal that species are fiat concepts (and thus, universal entities partially dependent on the human mind) carved in a multi-dimensional space representing the properties that the biological organisms possess. The final section concludes.","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131821115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Linguistic Objects Fiat or Bona Fide? An Ancient Proposal","authors":"M. Bonelli","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133874445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bona Fideness of Material Entities and Their Boundaries","authors":"Lars Vogt","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126415654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking about Properties: A Couple of Doubts about Hofweber’s Internalist View","authors":"E. Paganini","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129896832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Eye of the Needle: Seeing Holes","authors":"C. Calabi","doi":"10.1037/e617242012-089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e617242012-089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126891357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do We Exist? Mereological Nihilism, Collective Thinking and Dualism","authors":"Riccardo Fedriga","doi":"10.5040/9781350066359.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350066359.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151770,"journal":{"name":"Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130049460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}