This fascinating investigation on the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry, and the theory of perception seeks to answer two basic questions: Do holes really exist? And if so, what are they? Holes are among entities that down-to-earth philosophers would like to expel from their ontological inventory.
Casati and Varzi argue in favor of their existence and explore the consequences of this unorthodox approach--odd as these might appear.
They examine the ontology of holes, their geometry, their part-whole relations, their identity, their causal role, and the ways we perceive them.
A Bradford Book About author(s): Roberto Casati is the Director of the Jean Nicod Institute and Professor at EHESS in Paris.
He is the coauthor of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation, both published by the MIT Press.
| Questions | Do holes really exist |
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| About author(s) | Roberto |
| Places | The |
Bradford Book Holes and other superficialities, paperback/roberto casati
