...Delia Belleri [email protected] Thomasson Amie L. , Norms and Necessity . New York : Oxford University Press , 2020 252 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Amie Thomasson’s latest monograph, Norms and Necessity , defends a normativist position about...

...Dana Goswick Thomasson Amie , Ontology Made Easy . New York: Oxford University Press , 2015 . xiii + 345 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 In Ontology Made Easy , Amie Thomasson's aim is to “develop an alternative way of looking at that particular corner of metaphysics...

...Eddy M. Zemach Cornell University 2003 Amie L. Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 175. BOOK REVIEWS the obvious Quinean point that, unlike astrology, mathematics is stunningly successful in science...

...- ment,” Philosophia Mathematica 3 (1995): 166–74. 3 W. V. Quine, Theories and Things (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 72. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2003) Amie L. Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press...

... of seemingly different viewpoints in fact talk past each other (see Hirsch 2011 and Thomasson 2015 ). Chakravartty, however, construes “frameworks” as clusters of epistemological principles—rules for the evaluation of evidence and assessment of propositions. The effect is that, on this view, ontologists...

... artifacts. Many of these—tables, knives, artworks—are about as ordinary as it gets. It is also plausible to individuate these artifacts externally by our purposes, or those of original crafters. ( Lynne Ruder Baker [2004] , Daniel Korman [2015] , Amie Thomasson [2007] , and others defend such an approach...

... ); others emphasize epistemic problems in accounting for knowledge of primitive metaphysical posits ( Thomasson 2017a , 2017b ); yet others worry that the metaphysical posits usher a return to metaphysics that is objectionably obscure or Scholastic (or, perhaps worse, pre-Socratic; see Hofweber 2009...

... . The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ed. Richard Dury. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Thomasson, Amie. 1999 . Fiction and Metaphysics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Van Inwagen, Peter. 1977 . “Creatures of Fiction.” American Philosophical Quarterly 24 : 299 –308...

... pervasive. See for example Sosa 1987: 178 ; Sosa 1999: 178 ; van Inwagen 1990: 126 ; Sider 2001: 156 ; Hawthorne 2006: esp. 109 ; and van Cleve 2008 ; as well as Thomasson 2015: 212–15 . For resistance to this line of argument, see Korman 2015 : chap. 8 and Fairchild and Hawthorne 2018 for further...

..., Saint. 2010. Disputed Questions on Virtue. Indianapolis: Hackett. xxvii þ398 pp. Thomasson, Amie L. 2010. Ordinary Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wallace, David Foster. 2011. Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. New York: Columbia University Press. viii þ252 pp. Waller...

... Press. xiii + 271 pp. Smith, David Woodruff, and Amie L. Thomasson. 2005. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Clarendon. x + 322 pp. Stanley, Jason. 2005. Knowledge and Practical Interests. Lines of Thought. Oxford: Clarendon. xii + 191 pp. Steiner, Gary. 2004. Descartes...

... Press. xi + 270 pp. Sternberg, Eliezer J. 2007. Are You a Machine? The Brain, the Mind, and What It Means to Be Human. New York: Humanity Books. 176 pp. Thomasson, Amie L. 2007. Ordinary Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xi + 240 pp. 155 ...

..., Jason Stanley, Daniel Stoljar, Scott Sturgeon, Christine Thomas, and Amie Thomasson. Philosophical Review, Vol. 115, No. 3, 2006 DOI 10.1215/00318108-2006-003 © 2006 by Cornell University 355...

... on the material presented in this essay I am indebted to John Gabriel, John Hawthorne, John Heil, Ulrich Meyer, Jan Plate, Ori Simchen, Jim Stone, Amie Thomasson, Tim Williamson, and an audience at the Logos Conference on Metametaphysics (Barcelona, 2008). I am especially grateful for many valuable comments from...