Alien structure and themes from analytic philosophy

• Autores: Matti Eklund
• Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 41, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Meta-metafisica? / coord. por Rosa Maria Lupo), págs. 195-208
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We think of the world as consisting of objects, with properties and standing in relations. There are, to be sure, different views on what objects etc. there are, and on what their natures are. And some theorists want to subtract some elements from this picture. For example, the ontological nihilist says that there are no objects. But still, the view described is very much part of orthodoxy – so much so that one may need to be reminded that the view that the world consists of objects, with properties and standing in relations is, precisely, a view. I here investigate the possibility that this view is false: that there is what may be called alien structure. And I investigate the relationship between alien structure and some important themes from the history of analytic philosophy.