Experience and Possibility

Ontology concerns the general nature of the different categories of beings, for instance objects like cars and people, and properties like colors and shapes. Modality concerns what is possible and what is necessary. Experience and Possibility explores the surprising ways in which modality is involved in the ontology of the things we experience.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Modal Structure


• 3: Problems of Individuation


• 4: Space, Time, and, Location


• 5: Haecceities


• 6: Nominalism


• 7: Universals


• 8: Modal Structuralism and Color

About the author

Joseph Mendola is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His previous books are Human Thought (Kluwer, 1997), Goodness and Justice (CUP, 2006), Anti-Externalism (OUP, 2008), and Human Interests (OUP, 2014).

Summary

Ontology concerns the general nature of the different categories of beings, for instance objects like cars and people, and properties like colors and shapes. Modality concerns what is possible and what is necessary. Experience and Possibility explores the surprising ways in which modality is involved in the ontology of the things we experience.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Mendola, Joseph (Professor of Philosophy Mendola, Mendola Joseph
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198869764
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886976-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology