Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment.
This book presents the standard ontological commitment approach, together with a defense of the thesis of ontological relativity. It provides, at the same time, a wide-ranging overview of the ground conceptual tools of ontology. Their possible applications are outlined through a broad array of examp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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Colección: | Eide ;
Volume 10. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Part I: The Task and Scope of Ontology
- 1. Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline
- 2. Ontology in Its Different Varieties
- 3. Logical Tools for Ontological Analysis
- 4. Mereological Tools of Ontological Analysis
- Part II: Ontological Categories
- 5. Categories as Uppermost Kinds
- 6. Categorial Realism
- 7. Modalities
- 8. Categorial Conceptualism
- 9. Parts and Wholes
- 10. Natural Kinds and Ordering Strategies
- Part III: The Nature of Existence
- 11. Non-being
- 12. Being and Existence
- 13. Ontological Commitment
- 14. Identity
- Part IV: Ontological Proofs
- 15. The Existence of God
- 16. God as an A Priori Idea
- 17. Gödel's Proof
- Part V: Kinds of Being
- 18. Three Classical Views about Universals
- 19. The Standard Approaches to Concrete Entities
- 20. The Ontological Import of Mathematics
- 21. Elements of Social Ontology
- Relativism and Ontological Relativity
- Bibliography
- Index.