Ontology (Central Problems of Philosophy)

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Ontology (Central Problems of Philosophy)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
  • 言語 ENG,ENG
  • 商品コード 9780773524644
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In the first part of the book, Dale Jacquette explores questions of pure philosophical ontology: what is meant by the concept of being, why does something exist rather than nothing, and why there is only one logically contingent actual world. The author argues that logic provides the only possible answers to these fundamental problems of pure ontology. In the second part of the book Jacquette examines issues of applied scientific ontology and provides a critical survey of some of the most influential traditional ontologies, such as the distinction between appearance and reality and the categories of substance and transcendence. The ontology of physical entities - space, time, matter, and causation - are examined as well as the ontology of abstract entities - sets, numbers, properties, relations, and propositions. The special problems posed by the subjectivity of mind and of God are also explored. The book concludes with a chapter on the ontology of culture, language, and art.

Table of Contents

Preface                                            xi
Acknowledgements                                   xv
Introduction: Being as such                        1  (11)
  I Pure philosophical ontology
    What it is to be (on Heidegger)                12 (30)
    Combinatorial ontology                         42 (47)
    Why there is something rather than nothing     89 (20)
    Why there is only one logically contingent     109(25)
    actual world
    Concepts of existence in philosophical         134(22)
    logic and the analysis of being qua being
  II Applied ontology and the metaphysics of
  science
    Ontological commitment (on Quine)              156(26)
    Appearance, reality, substance,                182(11)
    transcendence
    Physical entities: space, time, matter and     193(13)
    causation, physical states of affairs and
    events, natural laws
    Abstract entities, particular and              206(27)
    universal: numbers, sets, properties,
    qualities, relations, propositions and
    possibilities, logical, mathematical and
    metaphysical laws
    Subjectivity of mind in the world of           233(20)
    objective physical facts
    God, a divine supernatural mind?               253(12)
    Ontology of culture: language, art and         265(10)
    artefacts
Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology      275(6)
Notes                                              281(28)
Bibliography                                       309(20)
Index                                              329