Van Inwagen, Peter <br/><br/>
Existence :  essays in ontology / 
Peter Van Inwagen. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2014. 
 - viii, 261 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Five questions<br/>The new anti-metaphysicians<br/>Being, existence, and ontological commitment<br/>Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities<br/>Can variables be explained away?<br/>Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism<br/>Alston on Ontological commitment<br/>A theory of properties<br/>What is an ontological category?<br/>Relational vs. constituent ontologies<br/>Can merological sums change their parts?<br/>Causation and the mental 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107625266 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ontology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>111  / VAN