In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't…
Fictional objects
11 original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about characters in fiction and other fictional objects. For example: Do they really exist? Are they created? Can they be destroyed? Are they abstract or concrete? What are their identity conditions? What kin…
Which entities should be accepted as part of the furniture of the world, and which not? What are "pseudo-objects," if they are not properly objects? This collection explores the answers given to these questions by some key philosophers throughout the 20th century. It brings toge…
The increasing importance being placed on software quality has led to a large number of new measures being proposed for quality design principles such as coupling. Given the importance of object-oriented development techniques, object-oriented metrics are needed to measure diffe…
Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by th…
The use of projective assessments has a long history and tradition within psychological testing. However, there is a relative lack of research using these techniques with people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Asperger Syndrome (AS). People with ASD have common featur…
