The Ways Things Are Studies in Ontology
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Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler, Josef Quitterer
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The Ways Things Are Studies in Ontology
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110325782
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Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN
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1
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CHF 120.30
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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303
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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 for our discourses. The three sections of the volume correspond to focuses of ontological research: 'Before Ontology' is dedicated to conceptual, methodological, and meta-ontological issues; 'Ontology at Work' raises general topics of categorial ontology, and the final section 'Ontology in Application' discusses questions such as those relating to free will and our conception of the human being. The book is a tribute to Edmund Runggaldier on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Its seventeen papers are authored by such distinguished scholars as Lynne Rudder Baker, Franz von Kutschera, E. J. Lowe, Otto Muck, Paul Weingartner, Timothy Williamson, and many others.
Contents
5
Preface
7
1. Before Ontology
15
Metaphysics and Higher-Order Modal Logic
17
On Metaphysical Possibility – in Classical and Analytic Philosophy
37
Beyond the Ultimate. Methodological Atomism, Methodological Holism, and Explanations
57
A Plea for a Naturalistic Ontology
73
Ockham on the Nature of Concepts
93
What is Aristotelian Metaphysics?
105
2. Ontology at Work
119
Experience of Change and Change of Experience
121
On the Unifying Role of Laws of Nature
131
Finitist Objects
149
Ontology and Ordinary Objects
167
Can One Separate Me From My Life? A Runggaldier-sympathetic perspective on four- vs. three-dimensionalism
181
Dimensions of the Mental
191
3. Ontology in Application
201
Philosophy and Neuroscience
203
How Molinists Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too
221
Scientia Media and Freedom to Do Otherwise
241
Dualism and Resurrection
263
Living like God in Switzerland? Soul, eternal present and beatitude in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s fifth promenade
277
The Authors
299
