Ways things are: studies in ontology
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt Ontos Verlag 2011
Schriftenreihe:Philosophische Analyse Bd. 44
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Preface; 1. Before Ontology; Metaphysics and Higher-Order Modal Logic; On Metaphysical Possibility -- in Classical and Analytic Philosophy; Beyond the Ultimate. Methodological Atomism, Methodological Holism, and Explanations; A Plea for a Naturalistic Ontology; Ockham on the Nature of Concepts; What is Aristotelian Metaphysics?; 2. Ontology at Work; Experience of Change and Change of Experience; On the Unifying Role of Laws of Nature; Finitist Objects; Ontology and Ordinary Objects
Can One Separate Me From My Life? A Runggaldier-sympathetic perspective on four- vs. three-dimensionalismDimensions of the Mental; 3. Ontology in Application; Philosophy and Neuroscience; How Molinists Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too; Scientia Media and Freedom to Do Otherwise; Dualism and Resurrection; Living like God in Switzerland? Soul, eternal present and beatitude in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's fifth promenade; The Authors
This book is a collection of essays in systematic ontology. The parts of its title - "Things" and "Ways They Are"--Are indicative of two broadly and intensively discussed issues in current ontology, namely, what categories of entities there are and in what ways they are relevant for our discourses. The three sections of the volume correspond to focuses of ontological research: "Before Ontology" is dedicated to conceptual, methodological, and meta-ontological issues; "Ontology at Work" raises general topics of categorial ontology, and the final section "Ontology in Application" discusses quest
Beschreibung:303 pages
ISBN:9783110325782
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