Supervaluations and the problem of the many

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 208, 2002, Pages 320-339

  Mckinnon, Neil ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 60949278453     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00271     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. P. Unger, 'The Problem of the Many', in P. French et al. (eds), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. V (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1980), pp. 411-67
2. D. Lewis, 'Many but Almost One', in J. Bacon et al. (eds), Ontology, Causality and Mind (Cambridge UP, 1993), pp. 23-42, at p. 29
3. Respectively, Unger, 'The Problem of the Many', p. 415
4. M. Tye, 'Fuzzy Realism and the Problem of the Many', Philosophical Studies, 81 (1996), pp. 215-25, at p. 221
5. Lewis, 'Many but Almost One', p. 23
6. K. Fine, 'Vagueness, Truth and Logic', Synthese, 30 (1975), pp. 265-300, at p. 270
7. M. Heller, The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four-Dimensional Hunks of Matter (Cambridge UP, 1990), pp. 151-4
8. Lewis borrows the notion of almost-identity from David Armstrong. See Armstrong, 'Reply to Lewis', in Bacon et al. (eds), Ontology, Causality and Mind, pp. 38-42
9. See also M. Johnston, 'Constitution is not Identity', Mind, 101 (1992), pp. 89-105, at pp. 101-2
10. E.J. Lowe, 'The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Constitution', Analysis, 55 (1995), pp. 179-82, at p. 180
11. Thanks here to an anonymous referee
12. See, for instance, his 'Vague Identity and Quantum Indeterminacy', Analysis, 54 (1994), pp. 110-14
13. also his 'Ontic Indeterminacy of Identity Unscathed', Analysis, 61 (2001), pp. 241-5
14. R. Sorenson, 'Sharp Boundaries for Blobs', Philosophical Studies, 91 (1998), pp. 275-95
15. T. Williamson, Vagueness (London: Routledge, 1994)
16. Thanks to Sam Butchart, Lloyd Humberstone, Brian Weatherson and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Special thanks to John Bigelow for very useful and encouraging discussions