The Abstract and the Concrete : Further Essays in Ontology Hardback
by Prof Peter (John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, John Cardinal O'Hara van Inwagen
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The Abstract and the Concrete presents nine essays in ontology by Peter van Inwagen.
Three of the essays concern topics in meta-ontology: the idea of multiple modes of being; Carnap's idea that the questions of "ontology," insofar as they are meaningful at all, are questions about which linguistic frameworks it is expedient to employ; the concept of one object's being metaphysically more fundamental that another.
Three of the essays concern various topics that pertain to the author's "lower-case" or "lightweight" platonism. (According to lightweight platonism, there are attributes-necessarily existent universals.
These attributes are not constituents of substances, they cannot enter into causal relations, and it is false that an F object is F in virtue of instantiating the attribute of being F.) The remaining three essays examine proposed answers to particular ontological questions: the question of the validity of mathematical fictionalism; the question whether it is analytic that at any place at which some xs are arranged chairwise, there is there a chair; the question of what it means to say that colour is an illusion, and whether (in the sense determined) colour is an illusion.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2024
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- ISBN:9780192870452
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Pre-OrderFree UK DeliveryThis title is available for pre-order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2024
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- ISBN:9780192870452