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Existence : essays in ontology /
Van Inwagen, Peter
Existence : essays in ontology / Peter Van Inwagen. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - viii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Five questions
The new anti-metaphysicians
Being, existence, and ontological commitment
Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities
Can variables be explained away?
Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism
Alston on Ontological commitment
A theory of properties
What is an ontological category?
Relational vs. constituent ontologies
Can merological sums change their parts?
Causation and the mental
In this collection of thirteen recent essays, Peter van Inwagen uses the methods of analytical philosophy to tackle a broad range of issues in ontology and meta-ontology. The topics covered include the nature of being, the interpretation of the existential quantifier, ontological commitment, contemporary critiques of metaphysics and ontology, the concept of ontological structure, fictional entities, mereological sums, and the ontology of mental states.
9781107625266
Ontology.
111 / VAN
Existence : essays in ontology / Peter Van Inwagen. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - viii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Five questions
The new anti-metaphysicians
Being, existence, and ontological commitment
Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities
Can variables be explained away?
Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism
Alston on Ontological commitment
A theory of properties
What is an ontological category?
Relational vs. constituent ontologies
Can merological sums change their parts?
Causation and the mental
In this collection of thirteen recent essays, Peter van Inwagen uses the methods of analytical philosophy to tackle a broad range of issues in ontology and meta-ontology. The topics covered include the nature of being, the interpretation of the existential quantifier, ontological commitment, contemporary critiques of metaphysics and ontology, the concept of ontological structure, fictional entities, mereological sums, and the ontology of mental states.
9781107625266
Ontology.
111 / VAN