Historical ontology - Couverture rigide

Hacking, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 067400616X ISBN 13 : 9780674006164

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

"Historical ontology" is not, at first sight, a happy phrase. It is too self-important by half. I have always disliked the word "ontology" If, like myself, you can understand the aims of psychology, cosmology, and theology, but are hard pressed to explain what a study of being in general would be, you can hardly welcome talk of ontology. And yet, and yet: suppose we want to talk in a quite general way about all types of objects, and what makes it possible for them to come into being. It is convenient to group them together by talking about "What there is," or ontology. I think of myself as a dynamic nominalist, interested in how our practices of naming interact with the things that we name - but I could equally be called a dialectical realist, preoccupied by the interactions between what there is (and what comes into being) and our conceptions of it. I shall generalize, and examine all manner of constitutings. But above all, I will ask how these various concepts, practices, and corresponding institutions, which we can treat as objecta of knowledge, at the same time disclose new possibilities for human choice and action. The catchphrase "historical ontology" helps us think of these diverse inquiries as forming part of a family.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ian Hacking holds the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France, and is a University Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books, including The Social Construction of What? (Harvard).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 067400616X
• ISBN 13: 9780674006164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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