Fostering the Ontological Turn
Fostering the Ontological Turn

Author: Rosaria Egidi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 3110325985

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Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, and Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in Italy. The fifteen papers collected in this volume were presented at the third of these conferences, in Rome, and are here divided into three sections: "Categories of a realistic ontology", "World, mind, and relations", "Metaphysics of space and time".

Ontology and Analysis
Ontology and Analysis

Author: Laird Addis

Publisher: Ontos Verlag

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9783938793695

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Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was arguably the greatest ontologist of the twentieth century in pursuing the fundamental questions of first philosophy as deeply as any philosopher of any time. In 2006 and 2007, international conferences devoted solely to his work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Universit de Provence (France), and Universit degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy). The papers in this volume were presented at the first of these conferences, in Iowa City, where he taught for nearly four decades after escaping from Europe, following the dissolution of the Vienna Circle of which he had been the youngest member. Laird Addis is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Iowa. Greg Jesson is completing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Iowa with a dissertation on Husserl and the ontology of knowledge. Erwin Tegtmeier is professor of philosophy at University of Mannheim (Germany).

Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann
Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann

Author: Javier Cumpa

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3110322463

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Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.

Studies in the philosophy of Herbert Hochberg
Studies in the philosophy of Herbert Hochberg

Author: Erwin Tegtmeier

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3110330555

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Herbert Hochberg is one of the most influential analytical philosophers and one of the most influential critics of analytical philosophy. He disputed with almost all leading analytical philosophers, from Quine, Goodman and Wilfrid Sellars to David Lewis and David Armstrong. His point of view is ontological and he harks back to the origins of analytical philosophy where he finds unknown precursors of current views. And he finds parallels to contemporary non-analytic philosophies. In his own ontology he tries to dispense with simple particulars.

The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins
The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins

Author: Jan Dejnozka

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780822630531

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The analytic movement advertised its 'linguistic turn' as a radical break from the two-thousand-year-old substance tradition. But this is an illusion. On the fundamental level of ontology, there is enough reformulation and presupposition of traditional 'no entity without identity' themes to analogize Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine to Aristotle as paradigmatic of modified realism. Thus the pace of ontology is glacial. Frege and Russell, not Wittgenstein and Quine, emerge as the true analytic progenitors of 'no entity without identity, ' offering between them at least twenty-nine private language arguments and sixty-four 'no entity without identity' theories