Avrum Stroll is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published about 20 books and around 150 articles. His books include Informal Philosophy (Roman and Littlefield, forthcoming), Moore and Wittgenstein (Oxford, 1994); Sketches of Landscapes: Philosophy by Example (MIT, 1998); Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Columbia, 2000), Wittgenstein (One World, Oxford, 2002), Skeptical Philosophy For Everyone (with R.H. Popkin, Prometheus, 2002), Did My Genes Make Me Do It? And Other Philosophical Dilemmas (One World, 2004), Much Ado About Non-Existence (with A.P. Martinich) (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and Surfaces (University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

Abstract:
The paper deals with Professor Thomasson's new book, Ordinary Objects. In that work she implies that common sense has an ontology. I differ; I think that common sense is not an explicit theory and therefore is not directed toward or against any philosophical conception, such as those espoused by Thomasson and G.E. Moore.

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