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Author: Peter van Inwagen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1107047129
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Author: Peter van Inwagen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1107047129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of Peter van Inwagen's recent essays on ontology and meta-ontology.
Author: Bob Hale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0199669570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.
Author: Guillermo Hurtado
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen essays make up the body of this anthology. Most of the authors are Latin Americans (although some of them work in other regions), and thus we might say that this volume is, in a very approximate sense, a showcase of recent Latin-American ontology and metaphysics. The remaining authors--Pierre Aubenque, Barry Smith, Lorenzo Peña and James Hamilton--are distinguished teachers who have had important contacts with the Latin-American philosophical community. The articles in this anthology address some of the central questions in ontology and metaphysics: the possibility of a science of being (Aubenque), the different possible approaches to ontology (Hurtado), the recent application of ontology to informatics (Smith), guise theory and its Leibnizian antecedents (Herrera), the reduction of space and time to phenomenological properties (Rodríguez Larreta), the Newtonian ontology of space and time (Benítez and Robles), the relation between truth and the so-called "truth-makers" (Rodríguez Pereyra), the ontological position of the Pyrrhonic skeptic (Junqueira Smith), the limits and difficulties of metaphysical realism (Cabanchik, Pereda), the defense of physicalist or emergentist positions regarding the mental (Pérez), the metaphysical nature of persons (Naishtat), the ontology of cultural entities (Peña), political ontology (Nudler), the relation between ontology and literature (Hamilton), the ontology of art (Tomasini). Some of the works (e.g., those Aubenque and Robles) approach the question from a historical perspective: others examine the most recent philosophical literature on the problems focalized (e.g., those by Pérez and Rodríguez Pereyra), and others offer new approaches (e.g., those of Rodríguez Larreta, Peña or Nudler) to a specific problematic area.
Author: Marc A. Hight
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0271047658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A wide-ranging study of the 'way of ideas' and its metaphysics, culminating in a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley."
Author: Roderick M. Chisholm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-28
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780521556163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book can be viewed as a summation of Roderick Chisholm's views on an enormous range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology.
Author: Kitarō Nishida
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-02-17
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0822351803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNishida KitarM (1870&–1945) was a Japanese philosopher, and the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. Havor has selected these three essays for translation because they will be politically and philosophically useful for contemporary theorists. The essays examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marxs ideas of production.
Author: George Englebretsen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 3110325829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn’t give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.
Author: Aljoscha Berve
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-09-10
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1443882437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most important characteristics of present day ontological research is the growing interest in, and emphasis on, the dynamic aspects of being and the process-relational character of being itself. However, many important questions still await detailed answers. For example, what is the meaning of the concepts of “dynamics,” “dynamicity,” and “dynamic ontology,” among others? Are they identical to, or similar with, respectively, “processes,” “process ontology,” “process-relational ontology”? Is “process ontology” a type of “dynamic ontology”? Dynamic Being: Essays in Process-Relational Ontology examines these and many other questions, and suggests fruitful approaches in dealing with such questions. The book carries out two main tasks: first, investigating developments in the theory of dynamic and process-relational ontologies, and, second, exploring developments in the application of these ontologies. The second task is multidisciplinary in character. The authors of the chapters in this volume are specialists not only in philosophy, but also in other fields of science, including psychology, biology, mathematics, logic, and computer science, their work providing a “seed-bed” of novel possibilities for cooperative interdisciplinary research.
Author: David Chalmers
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0199546045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.
Author: Chase B. Wrenn
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781433102295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNaturalism, Reference, and Ontology is a collection of twelve original essays honoring Roger F. Gibson, who has been a leading proponent and defender of W. V. Quine's philosophy for nearly thirty years. The essays address a wide range of topics, including normativity and naturalized epistemology, holism, consciousness, the philosophy of logic, perception, value theory, and the arts. The contributors are an international group of prominent philosophers as well as rising scholars including: Robert Barrett, Lars Bergström, Richard Creath, David Henderson, Terence Horgan, Ernest Lepore, Pete Mandik, Alex Orenstein, Kenneth Shockley, J. Robert Thompson, Josefa Toribio, Joseph Ullian, Josh Weisberg, and Chase B. Wrenn.