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Ontology /
This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chesham [England] :
Acumen,
2002.
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| Colección: | Central problems of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Being as such; I Pure philosophical ontology; 1 What it is to be (on Heidegger) ; 2 Combinatorial ontology; 3 Why there is something rather than nothing; 4 Why there is only one logically contingent actual world; 5 Concepts of existence in philosophical logic and the analysis of being qua being; II Applied ontology and the metaphysics of science; 6 Ontological commitment (on Quine) ; 7 Appearance, reality, substance, transcendence
- 8 Physical entities: space, time, matter and causation, physical states of affairs and events, natural laws9 Abstract entities, particular and universal: numbers, sets, properties, qualities, relations, propositions and possibilities, logical, mathematical and metaphysical laws; 10 Subjectivity of mind in the world of objective physical facts; 11 God, a divine supernatural mind?; 12 Ontology of culture: language, art and artefacts; Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology; Notes; Bibliography; Index