The Fragmentation of Being - Couverture souple

McDaniel, Kris

 
9780198848080: The Fragmentation of Being
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198848080 ISBN 13 : 9780198848080
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another?

Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident.
In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kris McDaniel is Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, New York. He has published on a wide variety of topics in metaphysics (such as modality, composition, metaontology, and persistence over time), as well as topics in the history of philosophy (such as Kant, Heidegger, and British Idealism), and in ethics.



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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198848080
ISBN 13 
9780198848080
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780198719656: The Fragmentation of Being

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0198719655 ISBN 13 :  9780198719656
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2017
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