دانلود کتاب Indeterminacy in the World

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Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Indeterminacy in the World
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Background
2 Objects
2.1 Identity, Parthood, Location
2.2 All Roads Lead to Identity
2.3 Against Indeterminate Identity
2.4 Resisting Evans
2.4.1 Contraposition
2.4.2 Reference
2.4.3 Impredicativity
2.4.4 Counterparts
2.4.5 Indeterminate Distinctness
2.5 Indeterminate Objects Sans Indeterminate Identity
3 States of Affairs
3.1 From Semantic to Metaphysical Indeterminacy
3.2 Extensional Theories
3.2.1 Many-Valued Logic
3.2.2 Boolean Many-Valued Logic
3.3 Intensional Theories
3.3.1 Indeterminate Propositions
3.3.2 Worlds: Concretism
3.3.3 Worlds: Ersatzism
3.3.4 Against Bivalence: Symmetry
3.3.5 Against Bivalence: Skepticism
3.4 De re Indeterminacy and Sparseness
3.5 Hyperintensional Theories
3.5.1 Explanation
3.5.2 Truthmaker Indeterminacy
3.5.3 Truthmaker Gaps
3.5.4 Indeterminate-Makers
3.6 The Determinable-Based Account
3.6.1 Motivation
3.6.2 From DET to DETFUZZY
3.6.3 Generality
3.6.4 Sentential Operators
4 Quantum Physics
4.1 Beyond Common Sense
4.2 Hilbert Spaces
4.3 Modeling Quantum Metaphysical Indeterminacy
4.3.1 Quantum Truthmaker Semantics
4.3.2 ‘Deep’ Indeterminacy
4.4 Against ‘Against Quantum Indeterminacy’
5 Concluding Remarks
References
Acknowledgments