Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge Collected Essays in Ontology
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Fred Wilson
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Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge Collected Essays in Ontology
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110327014
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Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN
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1
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CHF 258.60
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These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth of the 'myth of the given', are among the topics covered. Bergmann, Quine, Sellars, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hume, Bradley, Hochberg, Dummett, Frege, Plato, are among the philosophers discussed. The essays criticize non-Humean notions of cause; they criticize the notion that besides simple atomic facts there are also negative facts and general facts. They defend a realism of properties as universals, against nominalism; bare particulars; a (qualified) realism with regard to logical form; a Russellian account of relations; and an account of minds and intentionality, which is opposed to materialism, but is also a form of (methodological) behaviourism. In general, the ontology is one of logical atomism and empiricist throughout, rooted in a Principle of Acquaintance.
Preface
6
Acknowledgments
18
TABLE OF CONTENTS
21
One Acquaintance, Ontology and Knowledge*
24
Appendix OneThe Mythology of the Myth of the Given: the Holism of Wilfrid Sellars
66
Appendix ThreeHow Not to Lose Your Mind
96
TwoHume and Derridaon Language and Meaning*
132
ThreeEmpiricism: Principles and Problems*
153
FourOn the Hausmans’“New Approach to Berkeley’sIdeal Reality”*
192
FiveBradley’s Account of Relations and ItsImpact on Empiricism*
219
SixMoore’s Refutation of Idealism*
249
SevenBurgersdijck, Coleridge, Bradley, Russell,Bergmann, Hochberg:Six Philosophers on the Ontology ofRelations*
299
EightBareness, as in “Bare” Particular:Its Ubiquity*
353
NINEUNIVERSALS, BARE PARTICULARSAND TROPES:THE ROLE OF A PRINCIPLE OFACQUAINTANCE IN ONTOLOGY
387
TenThe World and Reality in the Tractatus
423
ElevenGrossmann on theCategorial Structure of the World*
437
TwelveBergmann’s Hidden Aristotelianism*
467
ThirteenHuman Action and a Natural Science ofHuman Being*
521
FourteenMarras on Sellarson Thought and Language*
543
FifteenEffability, Ontology and Method:Themes from Bergmann’s Ontology*
561
SixteenThe Aboutness of Thought*
617
SeventeenLanguage and (Other ? ) Abstract Objects*
633
EighteenImplicit Definition Once Again*
677
NineteenDummett’s History:Critical Review of Michael Dummett’sOrigins of Analytical Philosophy *
707
