Dale Jacquette

Ontology (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist is one of the core concerns of metaphysics. This is an introduction to ontology that provides readers with an account of the central ideas of the subject of being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317489597
• Artikelnr.: 42037881

Autorenporträt

Dale Jacquette

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: being as such Part 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 Part II: Applied antology 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 laws 9. Abstract entities
particular and universal: numbers
sets
properties
qualities
relations
propositions
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