E.J. Lowe and Ontology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Szatkowski, Miroslaw

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects fifteen original essays on E.J. Lowe's work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowe's insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000553826
• Artikelnr.: 63580952

Autorenporträt

Miros¿aw Szatkowski was until January 31, 2018, a professor of philosophy at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; and is since January, 2011, a Privatdocent in Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is also the Vice President of the International Society for Formal Ontology. His main fields of research are: logic, the foundations of mathematics, and formal ontology. He has published papers in the following journals: Studia Logica, Zeitschrift für mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik (Mathematical Logic Quarterly), Archiv für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung (Archive for Mathematical Logic), Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, Journal of Logic, Language and Information, and Metaphysica; and in several collective volumes. He has edited eight volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Miroslaw Szatkowski

Part I: Metaphysics in the Manner of E.J. Lowe

2. Lowe's Progress



John Heil



3. The Possibility of Metaphysics



Christian Kanzian



4. The Plausibility of Lowe's Metaphilosophy



Chris Daly



Part II: The Four-Category Ontology

5. Jonathan Lowe's Theory of Predication



Peter van Inwagen



6. Lowe's Eliminativism about Relations and the Analysis of Relational Inherence



Markku Keinänen



7. The Fundamentality and Non-Fundamentality of Ontological Categories



Jani Hakkarainen



8. The Four-Category Ontology modulo Topological Ontology



Janusz Kaczmarek



9. Kinds and Explanations: From the Four-Category Ontology to Formal Causation



Petter Sandstad & Ludger Jansen



Part III: Persons, Minds, and Agency

10. Persons and Physical Objects



Peter Simons



11. Persons, Minds, Souls and Selves: The Difference between the Mental and the Psychological



Kevin Mulligan



12. Lowe's Non-Cartesian Dualism



Eric T. Olson



13. Lowe's Dualist Construal of Mental Causation



Max Kistler



14. Causal and Non-Causal Aspects of Agency in Lowe's Ontology of Action



Michal Glowala



Part IV: Powers and Persistence

15. Powers Are Not Enough



Uwe Meixner



16. A Causal Theory of Constitution and Persistence



Rognvaldur D. Ingthorsson