States of Affairs / / Maria Elisabeth Reicher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Reicher, Maria Elisabeth,
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong, David M.,; David, Marian,; Hochberg, Herbert,; Meixner, Uwe,; Oaklander, L. Nathan,; Reicher, Maria E.,; Simons, Peter,; Tegtmeier, Erwin,; Textor, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Questions about States of Affairs --; States of Affairs – the Full Picture --; Facts and Connectors --; Facts and Things --; Why There Are No States of Affairs --; Are Particulars or States of Affairs Given in Perception? --; Time and Existence: A Critique of “Degree Presentism” --; Defending Existentialism? --; Index --; Authors --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110326024; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• ISSN: 2198-2066
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110326024
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Maria Elisabeth Reicher.

States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conjunctive, disjunctive etc.) states of affairs? Are there modal and tensed states of affairs? In this volume, these and other questions are addressed by David M. Armstrong, Marian David, Herbert Hochberg, Uwe Meixner, L. Nathan Oaklander, Peter Simons, Erwin Tegtmeier and Mark Textor.