Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199890579 ISBN 13 : 9780199890576

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most general categories of being.

Beginning with Aristotle and his Categories , the volume goes on to trace metaphyscis and logic through the late ancient and Arabic traditions, examining the views of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, contributors engage with Leibniz's metaphysics, Kant's critique of metaphysics, the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel, and Bolzano's views.

Subsequent chapters address: Charles S. Peirce's logic and metaphysics; the relevance of set-theory to metaphysics; Meinong's theory of objects; Husserl's formal ontology; early analytic philosophy; C.I. Lewis and his relation to Russell; and the relations between Frege, Carnap, and Heidegger. Surveying metaphysics through to the contemporary age, essays explore W.V. Quine's attitude towards metaphysics; Wilfrid Sellars's relation to antidescriptivism as it connects to Kripke's; the views of Putnam and Kaplan; Peter F. Strawson's and David M. Armstrong's metaphysics; Trope theory; and its relation to Popper's conception of three worlds. The volume ends with a chapter on transcendental philosophy as ontology.

In each chapter, contributors approach their topics not merely in an historical and exegetical fashion, but also engage critically with the thought of the philosophers whose work they discuss, offering synthesis and original philosophical thought in the volume, in addition to very extensive and well-informed analysis and interpretation of important philosophical texts. The volume will serve as an essential reference for scholars of metaphysics and logic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leila Haaparanta is Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere
Heikki Koskinen is Research Doctor at the Academy of Finland

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199890579
• ISBN 13: 9780199890576
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Éditeur: Haaparanta Leila, Koskinen Heikki
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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