Dividing Reality

"Dividing Reality is filled with detailed and uniformly interesting argumentation [constituting] an important addition to thinking about the problem. Hirsch's work will will serve as a major basis for subsequent discussion in the area."--The Review of Metaphysics "Important and challenging. Hirsch leads us through the heart of metaphysics, [leaving] his special mark on all the topics he touches.... I'd put it on the Metaphysician's Must Read list."--Philosophy and Phenomenological Research "Not often does a book pose a genuinely new philosophical problem, but this is precisely Eli Hirsch's intent in Dividing Reality. He poses 'The Division Problem', the problem of whether there is any 'rational basis for the ordinary classificatory and individuative functions of general words'....Hirsch does an excellent job of separating related, but often conflated conceptual, linguistic, and metaphysical issues....Given Hirsch's care for detail, Dividing Reality may well serve not only as a thorough introduction to a new problem, but also as a kind of refresher course in the process of doing precise analytic philosophy."--Australasian Journal of Philosophy "Like any good philosophical work, Dividing Reality is filled with detailed and uniformly interesting argumentation. Those arguments, in turn, constitute an important addition to thinking about the problem. Hirsch's work will will serve as a major basis for subsequent discussion in the area."--The Review of Metaphysics "In Dividing Reality Eli Hirsch continues the work he does so well....important and challenging, and covers much...territory....Hirsch leads us through the heart of metaphysics...he leaves his special mark on all the topics he touches. He has an eye for interesting questions and his pursuit of them draws in even those initially skeptical of the problems. I would love to sing more praises, but space forbids; let me just say that I'd put it on the Metaphysician's Must Read list, and enthusiastically recommend it to others."--Philosophy and Phenomenological Research