Ontology, Modality, and Mind

Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe
Herausgeber: Carruth, Alexander; Heil, John; Gibb, Sophie

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. Leading philosophers present new essays on topics to do with ontology, necessity, existence, and mental causation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780198796299
• ISBN-10: 0198796293
• Artikelnr.: 52822541

Autorenporträt

Alexander Carruth is Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Durham. Sophie Gibb is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham. John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: E. J. Lowe: Metaphysics as the Science of Essence
* Part I: Categorical Ontology
* 2: Peter Simons: Lowe, the Primacy of Metaphysics, and the Basis for
Categorial Distinctions
* 3: John Heil: Existents and Universals
* 4: Anna Marmodoro: Whole But Not One
* Part II: Necessity and Essence
* 5: David Oderberg: The Impossibility of Natural Necessity
* 6: Tuomas Tahko: The Epistemology of Essence
* 7: Antonella Corradini: Essence and Necessity: The Case of Normative
Non-naturalism
* 8: Peter van Inwagen: Lowe's New Ontological Argument
* Part III: Mental Causation
* 9: Alexander Carruth and Sophie Gibb: The Ontology of E. J. Lowe's
Substance Dualism
* 10: David Robb: Could Mental Causation be Invisible?
* Bibliography of the Works of E. J. Lowe