Being - A Study in Ontology

Being presents and defends a meta-ontology and an ontology. Peter van Inwagen offers answers to the ontological question 'What is there?' and to the questions of meta-ontology: 'What is it to be (or to exist)?' and 'How should one attempt to answer the ontological question?'

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• Summary


• I: Being and Existence


• II: Being and Non-Being


• III: Being and Abstraction


• IV: Being and Possibility


• V: Being and Generality


• VI: Lightweight Platonism: An Ontological Framework


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Maurice Lectures at King's College, London, the Wilde Lectures on Natural Religion at Oxford University, the Stewart Lectures at Princeton University, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews, where he received an honorary doctorate. He is the author of eight books and over two hundred essays and critical studies, and has had three books and four international conferences devoted to his work.

Summary

Being presents and defends a meta-ontology and an ontology. Peter van Inwagen offers answers to the ontological question 'What is there?' and to the questions of meta-ontology: 'What is it to be (or to exist)?' and 'How should one attempt to answer the ontological question?'

Additional text

The book is something of a historical document... this book will be very welcome to those working in the resurgence of analytic meta-ontology because it uncovers the roots of contemporary thinking about being.

Product details

• Authors: Peter van Inwagen, Peter (John Cardinal O''hara Professo Van Inwagen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9780192883964
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288396-4
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge