TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Inwagen, Peter
TI  - Existence: essays in ontology 
SN  - 9781107625266
U1  - 111 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ontology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -