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Critical Notice: Thomas Sattig’s The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the ordinary world, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Simon J. Evnine
Simon J. Evnine*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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Email: sevnine@miami.edu
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Abstract

This critical notice describes some of Thomas Sattig’s book The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World and raises several critical issues about it.

Keywords

SattigFineLewishylomorphismsemanticsmereology
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 2018 , pp. 142 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2017

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