This video outlines some of the philosophical puzzles raised by ordinary objects.
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My presentation of these arguments draws on Amie Thomasson, "Ordinary Objects" and Daniel Korman, "Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary". See also:
Eric Olson, "Why I have no hands"
Peter Unger, "There are no ordinary things"
Trenton Merricks, "Do ordinary objects exist? No."
https://iep.utm.edu/mat-comp/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ordinary-objects
0:00 - Introduction
1:56 - The Special Composition Question
14:19 - Causal Redundancy
21:17 - Material Constitution
27:00 - Sorites Arguments
32:50 - The Ship of Theseus
39:19 - Arbitrariness
42:41 - Causality or Constitution?
47:59 - Science vs Common Sense
54:11 - Debunking Object Intuitions
