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Ways things are : studies in ontology /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kanzian, Christian, Löffler, Winfried, Quitterer, Josef
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2011.
Colección:Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.