In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that
there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world …

This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not
ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is …

We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and
languages, money and markets. These are all social objects-they are made, at least in part …

A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called" ordinary people":
talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon …

A variety of relations widely invoked by philosophers—composition, constitution, realization,
micro-basing, emergence, and many others—are species of what I call 'building relations'. I …

Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and
chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem …

This chapter questions the causal-constitution fallacy raised against the extended mind. It
does so by presenting our signature temporal thesis about how to understand constitutive …

Offering a new perspective on the debate concerning naturalism in philosophy, this book
defends the autonomy of metaphysics while also making science centre stage. Three …

The central question I explore is to what extent realism should be metaphysically informed.
On the one hand, if the realist eschews metaphysics she runs the risk of being accused of …

Are a statue and the lump of clay that constitutes it one object or two? Many philosophers
have answered 'two'because the lump seems to have properties, such as the property of …