What Is, and What Is in Itself - A Systematic Ontology

This long-awaited book by one of the world's leading philosophers offers a systematic account of kinds of being, ways in which things can be or can fail to be.

List of contents

• Introduction and Overview


• 1: Actuality


• 2: Existence


• 3: Intentional Objects, Existent, and Nonexistent


• 4: Things and Properties


• 5: Intrinsic Reality, Relationality, and Consciousness


• 6: Reality and the Physical


• 7: The Epistemology of Being


• 8: Thisness


• 9: Identity, Time, and Self


• 10: God and the Causal Unity of the World


• 11: God and Possibilities

About the author

Robert Merrihew Adams, Clark Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Yale University

Summary

This long-awaited book by one of the world's leading philosophers offers a systematic account of kinds of being, ways in which things can be or can fail to be.

Product details

• Authors: Prof Robert Merrihew (Clark Professor of Ph Adams, Robert Merrihew Adams
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9780198909514
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890951-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion