Existence - Essays in Ontology

Informationen zum Autor Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent publications include Ontology, Identity, and Modality (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Problem of Evil (2006). Klappentext This is a collection of Peter van Inwagen's recent essays on ontology and meta-ontology. Zusammenfassung The problem of the nature of being was central to ancient Greek and medieval philosophy! and here Peter van Inwagen applies the techniques of analytical philosophy to a variety of ontological problems. The collection! which brings together published essays and new material! will be of great interest to metaphysics scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: inside and outside the ontology room; 1. Five questions; 2. The new antimetaphysicians; 3. Being, existence, and ontological commitment; 4. Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities; 5. Can variables be explained away?; 6. Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism; 7. Alston on ontological commitment; 8. A theory of properties; 9. What is an ontological category?; 10. Relational vs. constituent ontologies; 11. Can mereological sums change their parts?; 12. Causation and the mental.

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• Authors: Peter van Inwagen, Peter Van (University of Notre Dame Inwagen, Peter Van Inwagen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107047129
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04712-9
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology